On Wednesday, 19 June 2019 5:42:09 PM AEST Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > On 19.06.19 17:14, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > I wrote a mon script to monitor swap use because catching systems when > > memory use gets excessive before they go Oom is a good thing. > > > > When I deployed it I was notified of one of my servers which had 99% > > of the 2G of swap used but also 7G of "buff/cache" memory according to > > top and seemed to be running nicely like that. > > > > Would it give a better result to ignore the amount of swap in use and > > instead monitor the percentage of RAM used for buff/cache? -- Sent > > from my Huawei Mate 9 with K-9 Mail. > > What about reporting both? Then users could get a feel for how the > balance pans out for them, I figure. (Assuming that the script is > destined for the wild?)
It's designed for common usage, it's in the "mon" package in Debian. But I try to avoid adding useless features and to make defaults that are reasonably useful. > This aging host is growing slow, and checking up on what happens > especially when iceweasel ploughs into treacle, would be useful. > > Mind you, sometimes X just locks up, and I'd have to find and fire up > another host to whack it through ssh. Reset works. I've been meaning to get into monit which can restart things automatically. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
