Re: [net-snmp:code] 2 new commits to Code
Bill Fenner via Net-snmp-coders <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 9:53 AM Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > To avoid confusion: does your comment apply to commit a88d81f1144e > ("NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB, Linux: Update calculation of free space") only or > also to commit 4e3ace87b566 ("NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB: Account reclaimable > space")? > I'm fine with 4e3ace87b566 ("NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB: Account reclaimable space"). It's change a88d81f1144e ("NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB, Linux: Update calculation of free space") that I'm concerned about, that changes the long-standing values reported. Bill > > On 7/8/19 5:18 AM, Bill Fenner via Net-snmp-coders wrote: > > There's a long history of telling people "You're polling a Linux system, > you have to know that you subtract buffers and cached from physical before > you report free memory" in the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB. I'm not against > simplifying, but - if people have data collection set up for "the old way", > where you have to subtract buffers and cached after collecting them, then > this change will result in double-subtraction. > > In Arista EOS we handled this by adding another row to the table, to avoid > breaking existing data collection when someone upgrades. > > Bill > > > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 12:27 AM net-snmp Git repository < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Branch: V5-8-patches >> >> NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB, Linux: Update calculation of free space >> >> Update calculation of free space for Physical and Virtual memory on linux. >> Based on >> https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/master/proc/sysinfo.c#L789 >> >> [ bvanassche: edited patch subject ] >> >> By Josef Ridky on 07/04/2019 06:45 >> *View Changes* >> <https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/a88d81f1144ecf33f0ca02ada042b77368855a94/> >> ------------------------------ >> Branch: master >> >> Merge branch 'V5-8-patches' >> >> * V5-8-patches: >> NET-SNMP-SYSTEM-MIB, Linux: Update calculation of free space >> >> By Bart Van Assche on 07/08/2019 04:15 >> *View Changes* >> <https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ci/8d5cdf8aeb6b3521e09b2f2a921ed5061da221e9/> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in >> https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/code/ >> >> To unsubscribe from further messages, please visit >> https://sourceforge.net/auth/subscriptions/ >> > > _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders