ports/133758 and net-snmp-5.5 - inactive memory stil not counted as free memory

[Helmut Schneider]

Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:

> I am experiencing what seems like the problem in 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=133758
> 
> I have net-snmp-5.5 installed on FreeBSD 7.2 i386 and it returns this:
> UCD-SNMP-MIB::memAvailReal.0 = INTEGER: 189072 kB
> UCD-SNMP-MIB::memTotalFree.0 = INTEGER: 273204 kB
> 
> When this is what 'top' says:
> Mem: 157M Active, 1467M Inact, 189M Wired, 8580K Cache, 112M Buf, 176M
> Free
> 
> Clearly the "Inact" isn't counted as free memory which is causing my 
> monitoring to throw alerts when there is actually lots of "free"
> memory left (where free=free+inact).

net-snmp now reports inactive memory as cache memory (actually inactive
memory is not free memory). Please check.

Helmut

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