[Nagiosplug-devel] check_swap mis-reporting values

[Ton Voon]

Matt,

Can you try with the latest Nagios plugins? There's been a lot of work 
on check_swap in the 1.4 release. Also use the -v switch to see what 
commands check_swap is actually running.

Ton

On 19 Feb, 2004, at 23:28, Matt Pounsett wrote:

>
> I have a problem on a particular Solaris 7 box with check_swap 
> reporting
> incorrect values.   I'm pretty sure this is a problem with the machine 
> itself,
> rather than with check_swap, since the plugin is working correctly on 
> other
> Solaris machines, including other SunOS 5.7 boxes.  However, since I 
> don't
> really know what check_swap is doing in the background to get its 
> data, I
> thought I'd ask here for recommendations on where I should look for 
> problems.
>
> Here's the details...
>
> check_swap is
> check_swap (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9
>
> The only swap partition on the machine in question looks like this:
>
> % df -k /tmp
> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
> swap                 2015408   55680 1959728     3%    /tmp
>
> And here's what check_swap reports:
>
> % ./check_swap -a
> CRITICAL - Swap used: 100% (164656 out of 164656)
>
> The "used" value varies slightly, from 164000 up to 164656.  However, 
> it never
> reports the correct value.  It's not even getting the correct 
> "available"
> value.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on where I should look for problems?
>
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