Hi Andrew, <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AHKAPLAN@partners.org">AHKAPLAN@partners.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I do have the pnp4-nagios utility
installed on the Nagios server. </font></span>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Among the trends that are graphed by it is Current Load.
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">If Current Load </font></span><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">is the trend to
look at, which of the three data sources associated with it,
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">load1 load5 load15, would be the one affiliated with
memory? </font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Load means the number of processes per processor waiting in the scheduler's RUN QUEUE. The load1 is the average of that number in the last minute, load5 it's the same average within 5 minutes, and load15 the same for the last 15 minutes. It does NOT relates to memory leak detection.<br>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AHKAPLAN@partners.org" target="_blank">AHKAPLAN@partners.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">There are indications that an application on the
monitored system is causing a slow memory leak.</font> <br><font face="Arial" size="2">Is there a plugin or histogram setting that is available that would
help check for memory leaks on </font><br><font face="Arial" size="2">the remote
system? Thanks.</font><br></p></div></blockquote></div>Trending is more suitable
for graphing solutions that uses RRDs. <br>Nagios is more likely to be used as
an exception monitoring tool, though it might be used to generate graphs as
well. <br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Cheers, <br></div></div>