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Date:      Sat, 3 Jul 2010 12:36:41 GMT
From:      Helmut Schneider <jumper99@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/148338: net-mgmt/net-snmp55: incacitve memory not counted as cached memory
Message-ID:  <201007031236.o63Cafxf003643@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <201007031240.o63Ce1NV069241@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         148338
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       net-mgmt/net-snmp55: incacitve memory not counted as cached memory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 03 12:40:01 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Helmut Schneider
>Release:        8.0-RELEASE-p3
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
According to http://www.net-snmp.org/docs/CHANGES.html (PATCH 1879261) inactive memory should be treated as cached memory instead of used memory. Actually this does not happen in the current port for what every reason.

My C knowledge is very little so feel free to improve/correct my patch.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- agent/mibgroup/hardware/memory/memory_freebsd.c.orig	2010-06-29 12:34:48.000000000 +0200
+++ agent/mibgroup/hardware/memory/memory_freebsd.c	2010-07-01 13:32:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -43,10 +43,15 @@
 
     u_long         phys_mem;
     u_long         user_mem;
+    unsigned int   cache_count;
+    unsigned int   cache_max;
     unsigned int   bufspace;
     unsigned int   maxbufspace;
+    unsigned int   inact_count;
     size_t         mem_size  = sizeof(phys_mem);
+    size_t         cache_size  = sizeof(cache_count);
     size_t         buf_size  = sizeof(bufspace);
+    size_t         inact_size  = sizeof(inact_count);
     int            phys_mem_mib[] = { CTL_HW, HW_PHYSMEM };
     int            user_mem_mib[] = { CTL_HW, HW_USERMEM };
 
@@ -56,9 +61,11 @@
     sysctl(total_mib,    2, &total,    &total_size,    NULL, 0);
     sysctl(phys_mem_mib, 2, &phys_mem, &mem_size,      NULL, 0);
     sysctl(user_mem_mib, 2, &user_mem, &mem_size,      NULL, 0);
+    sysctlbyname("vm.stats.vm.v_cache_count",    &cache_count,    &cache_size, NULL, 0);
+    sysctlbyname("vm.stats.vm.v_cache_max",    &cache_max,    &cache_size, NULL, 0);
+    sysctlbyname("vm.stats.vm.v_inactive_count",    &inact_count,    &inact_size, NULL, 0);
     sysctlbyname("vfs.bufspace",    &bufspace,    &buf_size, NULL, 0);
     sysctlbyname("vfs.maxbufspace", &maxbufspace, &buf_size, NULL, 0);
-    auto_nlist(SUM_SYMBOL,      (char *) &vmem,     sizeof(vmem));
 #ifndef freebsd4
     pagesize = 1024;
 #else
@@ -75,7 +82,7 @@
         if (!mem->descr)
              mem->descr = strdup("Physical memory");
         mem->units = pagesize;
-        mem->size  = user_mem/pagesize;
+        mem->size  = phys_mem/pagesize;
         mem->free  = total.t_free;
     }
 
@@ -129,9 +136,9 @@
     } else {
         if (!mem->descr)
              mem->descr = strdup("Cached memory");
-        mem->units = vmem.v_page_size;
-        mem->size  = vmem.v_cache_max;
-        mem->free  = vmem.v_cache_max - vmem.v_cache_count;
+        mem->units = pagesize;
+        mem->size  = cache_max + inact_count;
+        mem->free  = cache_max - cache_count;
     }
 
     nswap = swapmode(pagesize);


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