Re: [Sheflug] SNMP daemon and uptime ?

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] richlowe.net>]

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <Chris> writes:
> 
>     Chris> Anyone ever seen this with ucd-snmp (ver 4.2.1)?
> 
>     Chris> [172%][linux2][cej] >snmpget localhost public
>     Chris> system.sysUpTime.0 system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks:
>     Chris> (4189171303) 484 days, 20:35:13.03 [173%][linux2][cej]
>     Chris> >uptime 10:14pm up 37 days, 11:34, 1 user, load average:
>     Chris> 2.00, 2.00, 2.00 [174%][linux2][cej] >
> 
>     Chris> Just look at how long snmpd thinks it's been running
>     Chris> ... mre than ten times longer than the machine
>     Chris> uptime. Suggestions on a postcard?
> 
>     Chris> Machine is Dual P150 running 2.2.19 ... I'm wondering if
>     Chris> its a timing issue in the daemon, running at some funny
>     Chris> speed as it's not dealing with SMP quite right...
> 
>     Chris> *shrug*
> 
>     Chris> System date/time is correct.
> 
>     Chris> Ideas on a postcard :)
> 
>     Chris> Chris...
> 
> 
> About the only thing I can possibly thing of (and it's fairly
> improbable) is that if the time/date on the server has been changed
> since that SNMP process was started and it's thrown any sort of time
> keeping that the SNMP process might do/bad handling of time/negative
> numbers etc.
> 
> *Clutches at straws*
> 

I would have thought it got the uptime from /proc/uptime?
Although that makes the problem far more confusing.
Maybe parsing it wrongly? (if it does use it).

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