My headless Ubuntu 22.04 (x86_64) machine, running agent 9.3, recently sent me a "Low Memory" notification. This was unexpected as I don't have any memory-intensive processes running on the machine currently. Since this was the first time I received such a notification, I decided to investigate the matter to understand what could have triggered it.
The notification:
I ran "free -h" to get a clearer picture of the memory usage. Here's the output:
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62Gi 1.2Gi 3.9Gi 832Mi 57Gi 60Gi
Swap: 8.0Gi 0B 8.0Gi
Next, I checked the relevant part of my config.xml file:
<!--Send a notification when the available memory is below a certain percentage (between 10 and 90) for a number of minutes (between 1 and 120)-->
<MemoryLow Priority="1" Percentage="10" Minutes="1" Enabled="true"/>
Based on the comment in the config.xml file, I'm led to believe that the "<MemoryLow>" tag is intended to trigger based on the available memory. However, I'm uncertain if this is the case, and believe the notification was triggered due to low "free" memory. As seen from the "free -h" output.
So my question is, is "<MemoryLow>" supposed to trigger based on "free" memory or "available" memory? I'd argue that it would be more important to report on "available" memory rather than "free" memory if it is the latter.
I can't find much information on the config.xml file. If anyone can point me towards documentation or other relevant information, would it be greatly appreciated.
