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/>
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