[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD SNMP OID Question

Jesse Callaway bonsaime at gmail.com
Tue Sep 17 13:56:59 EDT 2013


I'm also running the same kernel version and arch. But I get a couple more
lines in my grep of sysctl:

$ sysctl -a |fgrep -i swap
1 PART ada1p3 4294967296 512 i 3 o 244813153280 ty freebsd-swap xs GPT xt
516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
z0xfffffe00087beb00 [shape=box,label="SWAP\nswap\nr#3"];
    <name>SWAP</name>
      <name>swap</name>
        <type>freebsd-swap</type>
vm.swap_enabled: 1
vm.nswapdev: 1
vm.swap_async_max: 4
vm.swap_reserved: 2013835264
vm.swap_total: 4294967296
vm.swap_idle_threshold2: 10
vm.swap_idle_threshold1: 2
vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout: 0
vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin: 0
vm.stats.vm.v_swapout: 0
vm.stats.vm.v_swapin: 0
vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts: 0
vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts: 0
vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0
$ uname -a
FreeBSD zip 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10
UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
amd64


Dunno what the xml is from, not going to look now... but the
vm.swap_reserved/total don't seem to show up in you sysctl output.




On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Mark Saad <mark.saad at ymail.com> wrote:

> All
>   Can someone shed some light on a OID mystery I have. I am using cacti
> to trend some snmp data off a bunch of FreeBSD servers.
>
> I noticed someone added a graph to a cluster for UCDavis - ssRawSwapIn /
> UCDavis - ssRawSwapOut  . The OIDs are .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.62 /
> .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.63  Their description is  Number of blocks swapped
> in / Number of blocks swapped out .
>
> The mystery is the graphs show pages swapping in and out all the time.
> However the sysctls for swap usage show no indication of swap being used
>
> # sysctl -a |fgrep -i swap
> vm.swap_enabled: 1
> vm.nswapdev: 1
> vm.swap_async_max: 4
> vm.swap_idle_threshold2: 10
> vm.swap_idle_threshold1: 2
> vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsout: 0
> vm.stats.vm.v_swappgsin: 0
> vm.stats.vm.v_swapout: 0
> vm.stats.vm.v_swapin: 0
> vm.disable_swapspace_pageouts: 0
> vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts: 0
> vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0
>
> # uptime
>  2:51PM  up 203 days, 22:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
>
>
> # snmpwalk -c MyPassword -v2c -Of server00 .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.62.0
> .iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.ucdavis.systemStats.ssRawSwapIn.0
> = Counter32: 3588
>
>
>
> I am using net-snmp-5.4.2.1 on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>
>
>
> See *http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html
>
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>
> --
> Mark Saad | mark.saad at ymail.com
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-jesse
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