Here the response from Pandora support : Ok. I have talk with jobmates and you are right. Because the memory in GNU/Linux is management in other priorities and the system may take all memory but it is free.
I have add this changes in the "Pending Task" tracker of project in the SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3284422&group_id=155200&atid=1226163 But at the moment you could change the line for you correct line in your system. Thanks. 2011/4/11 Fabio DellaCorte <iloveyoumarya...@gmail.com> > I know most of software that you mentioned , particularly i use Pandora fms > that use agent for memory warning . Pandora use this command : cat > /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree | awk '{ print $2 }' . I wrote to Pandora > support because i think is misleading . > > > 2011/4/11 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:55:13PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: >> > [Sorry for the toppost, but I can't be arsed to edit the >> > already-buggered quoting] >> > >> [cut] >> > >> > Regardless, I suggest you *collect*, *graph* and *trend* these >> > values, but don't alert or warn based on them. On the other hand, you >> > may dislike a good night's sleep. >> >> For which there are plenty of already working applications; munin, >> nagios, collectd, cacti and so on. Monitoring the amount of free memory >> on a machine is such a common task that there's almost no need to >> re-invent the wheel. >> >> >
