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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">With the 2.6.5 kernel, check_swap reports:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">entweb:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_swap -w 15% -c 30%</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CRITICAL - Swap used: -2147483648% (0 out of 0)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If I reboot the server with 2.4.25, it reports:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">entweb:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_swap -w 15% -c 30%</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Swap ok - Swap used: 0% (0 out of 1011699712)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">entweb:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_swap -V</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">check_swap (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Running nagios-plugins-1.3.1 on Slackware 9.1 with all updates.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any ideas?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jeff</FONT>
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