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      OSInfo Data Collector

      This data collector gathers interesting information about the operating system that is displayed in ProTop RT and on the ProTop portal.

      For a detailed discussion of these metrics, see ProTop Real-Time - OS Info (o).

      To set up an alert on a metric listed here, note the Data Collector name at the top of this page, the Alertable Metric, and the Data Type from the table below and visit Alert Configuration.

      Alertable Metric ProTop RT Label Data Type Description
      tt_osinfo     (temptable name)
      byteOrder Byte Order char Order or sequence of bytes of a word of digital data
      coresPerSocket Cores/socket num Cores per socket
      cpu_bogomips CPU BogoMIPS num Measure of CPU speed
      cpu_clock Clock Speed Ghz num CPU clock speed in Ghz
      cpuArch Architecture char CPU architecture
      cpuCores Real Cores num Number of physical cores on the server
      hostName Host Name char Name of server / host ProTop is running on
      hypervisor Hypervisor char Virtual machine monitor solution
      keVersion Kernel Version char Kernel Version
      logCPUs Logical CPUs num Number of logical CPUs
      maxDataSeg Max Data Seg char Maximum data segment size
      maxFileSz Max File Size char Maximum file size
      maxOpenFl Max Open Files char Maximum number of open files
      maxProcMem Max Proc Mem char Maximum memory per process
      maxProcs Max Processes char Maximum processes the OS can handle
      maxStack Max Stack char Maximum stack size
      memActive Active num Current amount of active memory
      memAvailable Available num Amount of available memory on the server
      memBufs Buffers num Memory buffers in use
      memCached Cached num Amount of cached memory
      memCommtdAS Commited_AS num An estimate of how much RAM you need to make a 99.99% guarantee that there never is OOM (out of memory) for this workload.
      memFree Free num Amount of free memory
      memInAct Inactive num Amount of inactive memory
      memShared Shared num Amount of shared memory
      memTotal Mem Total num Amount of total memory
      modelCPU CPU Model char Model name of the CPUs used on this server
      numaNodes NUMA nodes num Number of NUMA nodes on this server
      numSockets Sockets num Number of sockets
      osName OS Name char Operating System Name
      N/A OS Page Size num Operating System Page Size
      osUpTime Up Time char Days since the server was rebooted
      osVersion OS Version char Version of the operating system
      N/A Power Mgmt char  
      SHMMNI Num Shm Segs num Number of shared memory segments
      SHMMAX Max Shm Seg Sz num Maximum shared memory segment size
      SHMALL Max Amnt Shm num Maximum amount of shared memory
      SEMMNS Tot Semaphores num Total number of semaphores system-wide
      SEMMNI Tot Sem Idents num Total number of semaphore identifiers
      SEMMSL Semaphores/Set num Maximum number of semaphores per set
      SEMOPM Sem Ops/Call num Maximum operations per semop call
      N/A Swappiness unk Current value of the VM Swappiness setting
      threadsPerCore Threads/core num Threads per core