After your VOS or OpenVOS module has been up for a while (a few months or more), you may notice that some of the metering values displayed by various analyze_system requests have gone negative, or some of the percentages are way off. This is caused by the underlying integer counters overflowing; when this happens, they “wrap around” to the largest negative number and start counting up through the negative numbers. Eventually, if you wait long enough, they will become positive again. But since the counters are incremented at various times, it is guaranteed that only some counters will be negative, while others remain positive. Hence, the meaningless output of negative values.
The solution is simple: reset the meters before attempting to reference them. The “-reset” option to the various analyze_system metering requests saves a copy of the meters in a file named as_meter_file in your home directory. The next time that you execute the metering request, these saved values are subtracted from the current values, so that the data represents just the activities that took place since the meters were reset.
If you want to “unreset” the meters, simply rename or delete as_meter_file.
Here is an example of using the analyze_system cache_meters on a module that has been up for a few months. The first use of cache_meters displays data that is inconsistent. The second use displays data that is accurate.
Hits Misses Total File Data 1112734947/ 93.81% 73384889/ 6.19% 1288214193/279.61% Indirect 648741913/ 98.00% 13221914/ 2.00% 662389071/143.77% Index Data 56569823/ 95.60% 2605721/ 4.40% 59182760/ 12.85% Indirect 23459/ 97.40% 625/ 2.60% 24203/ 0.00% Directory Data **********/******% 12033330/******% **********/******% Indirect 17025043/ 99.75% 42070/ 0.25% 17068785/ 3.70% Totals 253698831/ 71.47% 101288549/ 28.53% 460716273 as: cache_meters -reset as: cache_meters
cache_meter normal %es#m105 0:00:37 10-07-19 16:04:18 Metering time: 0:00:37
___FCKsi___5 Hits Misses Total File Data 10124/ 52.27% 9246/ 47.73% 22052/ 47.33% Indirect 17355/ 98.92% 190/ 1.08% 17547/ 37.66% Index Data 10/ 90.91% 1/ 9.09% 11/ 0.02% Indirect 0/ 0.00% 0/ 0.00% 0/ 0.00% Directory Data 6748/ 96.69% 231/ 3.31% 6979/ 14.98% Indirect 6/100.00% 0/ 0.00% 6/ 0.01% Totals 34243/ 77.98% 9668/ 22.02% 46595 as:
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I hope this helps clarify the situation.
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