Re: filesystem cache metrics in OEM 10g

  • From: "John Kanagaraj" <john.kanagaraj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 16:44:40 -0700

Dave,

> Anyone have a good way of dealing with this?  Should I create user metric to 
> pull in "vmstat" buff and cache values, used to subtract from used memory to 
> get a more real picture?  Seems like a dumb fix but I can't come up with any 
> other way.  I know managment won't understand that just because memory shows 
> as 99% used all the time its really not.

You did not mention the OS platform, but I am guessing *nix. In that
case, configure sar (if not already configured) - you will then not
need to poll from vmstat. Depending on your OS, sar will be able to
provide this information.

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