4.7-beta1: memory usage differences

[metaworx - martin rüegg]

hi

we just installed 4.7-beta1 on our system to check out the new system
monitoring feature.

we run debian linux with

address@hidden:~$ uname -a
Linux dolomit 2.6.14.4-vs2.0.1 #1 SMP Fri Dec 16 13:05:24 CET 2005 i686
GNU/Linux

vservers are running.

now monit reports the following:

System 'dolomit'
  status                            running
  monitoring status                 monitored
  load average                      [1.35] [1.32] [1.23]
  cpu                               3.9%us 1.9%sy 0.0%wa
  memory usage                      1257408 kB [60.5%]
  data collected                    Mon Dec 19 20:34:16 2005

while on /proc we got different values on memory usage.

address@hidden:~$  sudo cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      2075320 kB
MemFree:         73108 kB
Buffers:        111596 kB
Cached:         633000 kB
SwapCached:          4 kB
Active:        1011856 kB
Inactive:       407904 kB
HighTotal:     1179392 kB
HighFree:        63984 kB
LowTotal:       895928 kB
LowFree:          9124 kB
SwapTotal:     2097144 kB
SwapFree:      2097124 kB
Dirty:             372 kB
Writeback:          48 kB
Mapped:         730040 kB
Slab:           557744 kB
CommitLimit:   3134804 kB
Committed_AS:  1795656 kB
PageTables:       6136 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      8920 kB
VmallocChunk:   105744 kB

can this be an issue of SMP (2 CPU) or vserver-patch?

we also tried to run monit in context 1 (which can see all processes): same
result.

how is the memory usage calculated?

best regards,
martin.

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