Re: Memory totals not adding up

[Darhl Thomason]

Let me try this and see how it goes.  It's a good learning exercise
for me since I've never patch source before.


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
> … if you prefer the binary build (such as monit-5.3-linux-x64.tar.gz), i can 
> prepare binary fix as well - let me know which platform you need (such as the 
> linux-x64)
>
>
> On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Martin Pala wrote:
>
>> You need to recompile to apply the patch:
>>
>>       wget http://www.mmonit.com/monit/dist/monit-5.3.tar.gz
>>       tar -xzf monit-5.3.tar.gz
>>       cd monit-5.3
>>       patch -p0 < mem_percent.patch
>>       ./configure
>>       make
>>       make install
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Darhl Thomason wrote:
>>
>>> Fantastic, thanks for getting the patch put together so quickly!
>>>
>>> Pardon my inexperience, I've never applied a patch like this.  Do I
>>> apply it to the source and recompile, do I apply it to the binary?
>>> I've googled patch and I'm still not quite sure how to apply it.
>>>
>>> Thanks again!!!
>>>
>>> Darhl
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> You are right, the "memory [kB]" shows the total including children, but 
>>>> the memory% still shows the process itself.
>>>>
>>>> The patch is attached.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Darhl Thomason wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Martin,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for having my suggestion included in the 5.3 update.  I applied
>>>>> it this morning and see that the memory count looks correct, but I
>>>>> think the % calculation was missed in the update.  It looks like it is
>>>>> still reporting the % of the main thread only and does not include the
>>>>> child threads.  The memory % should be somewhere around 15% in the
>>>>> attached screenshot/example.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Darhl
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Martin Pala <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> You are right, int he case of the process-based worker pool such as
>>>>> Apache it is confusing to display only the CPU and Memory usage of the
>>>>> parent/control process.
>>>>> We'll modify the overview page to display the resource usage including
>>>>> children (will work fine even for services without children - in their
>>>>> case the total memory usage and memory usage are equal).
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:33 AM, Darhl Thomason wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the reply and I now see the 'Total Memory Usage (incl.
>>>>> children)' on the detail page for the Apache process.  It's a bit
>>>>> confusing because the top line of the main page shows total memory
>>>>> used, but when you add up the memory displayed on that page for each
>>>>> process it doesn't add up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any plans or is there any possibility for the main page to
>>>>> show 'Total Memory Usage (incl. children)'?  I also just noticed that
>>>>> CPU usage is reported the same way.  The main page only shows CPU for
>>>>> the single process, but the detail page shows 'Total CPU Usage (incl.
>>>>> children)'.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have a wishlist, I'd like to add the Total Memory Usage (incl.
>>>>> children) and Total CPU Usage (incl. children) on the main page.
>>>>> Maybe have this as an option in the config file so you can do
>>>>> something like this:
>>>>> <monit_5.3.png>--
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