When JON reports free and used memory on a Linux platform resource it does not take into account cached and buffered memory
Issue
- Monitor Linux memory correctly and usefully
- JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON or JON) shows free memory amount just by looking at the free amount of memory
- Free memory reported for Linux is useless because it sums also disk cache and buffers which are filled as much there is free memory available.
- Free and used system memory is reported by itself without including memory buffers and cache
- The free and used memory reported for the platform does not reflect the actual free and used memory
Environment
- JBoss Operations Network (JON) 3.0, 3.0.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6
- Platform's Free Memory metric
- Platform's Used Memory metric
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