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      OS Info (o) [aka osinfo]

      For information purposes, ProTop gathers interesting information about the operating system to display in ProTop RT and the ProTop web portal.

      Here's what the panel looks like in ProTop RT:

      First Column

      ProTop RT Label Alertable Metric* Description
      OS Name osName Operating system Name
      OS Version osVersion Operating system version
      Kernel Version keVersion Operating system kernel version
      Host Name hostName Name of server / host ProTop is running on
      Max File Size maxFileSz Operating system limit on any one file size
      Max Stack maxStack Maximum stack size
      Max Data Seg maxDataSeg Maximum data segment size
      Max Proc Mem maxProcMem Maximum memory per process
      Max Open Files maxOpenFl Operating system limit on the number of files opened concurrently
      Max Processes maxProcMem Operating system limit on the number of processes running concurrently
      Num Shm Segs SHMMNI Number of shared memory segments
      Max Shm Seg Sz SHMMAX Maximum shared memory segment size
      Max Amnt Shm SHMALL Maximum amount of shared memory

      Second Column

      ProTop RT Label Alertable Metric* Description
      OS Page Size N/A Operating system page size
      Swappiness N/A Current value of the VM Swappiness setting
      Tot Semaphores SEMMNS Total number of semaphores system-wide
      Tot Sem Idents SEMMNI Total number of semaphore identifiers
      Semaphores/Set SEMMSL Maximum number of semaphores per set
      Sem Ops/Call SEMOPM Maximum operations per semop call

      Third Column

      ProTop RT Label Alertable Metric* Description
      Up Time osUpTime Days since the server was rebootedDays the server has been up
      Mem Total memTotal Total amount of memory installed on the server
      Available memAvailable Amount of available memory on the server
      Inactive memInAct Amount of inactive memory
      Free memFree Amount of memory currently not in use
      Committed_AS memCommtdAS 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.
      Buffers memBufs Memory buffers in use
      Shared memShared Amount of shared memory
      Cached memCached Amount of cached memory
      Active memActive Current amount of active memory

      Fourth Column

      ProTop RT Label Alertable Metric* Description
      CPU Model modelCPU Model name of the CPUs used on this server
      Architecture cpuArch CPU architecture
      Byte Order byteOrder Order or sequence of bytes of a word of digital data
      Hypervisor hypervisor Virtual machine monitor solution
      Power Mgmt N/A Power management
      Real Cores cpuCores Number of physical cores on the server
      Logical CPUs logCPUs Number of logical CPUs
      Clock Speed Ghz cpu_clock CPU clock speed in Ghz
      CPU BogoMIPS cpu_bogomips Measure of CPU speed
      Sockets numSockets Number of sockets
      Cores/socket coresPerSocket Cores per socket
      Threads/core threadsPerCore Threads per core
      NUMA nodes numaNodes Number of NUMA nodes on this server

      *Requires data collector "OSInfo" in pt3agent.cfg. With the commercial version of ProTop, you can configure alerts using the metric names in this column. For a full list of metrics, see the Alertable Metrics section.