check_mem output differ from what we see on the server

[Bancal Samuel]

Hi,

We discovered some quite strange result from the check_mem plugin :

root at server:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mem --version
check_mem v$Revision: 1.8 $ (monitoring-plugins 2.1.2)
The Monitoring Plugins come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute
copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

It says that no memory is used and some swap is. By looking the output from free, we read completely different values :

root at server:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mem -w 85,25 -c 92,50
<b>WARNING: Memory Usage (W> 85, C> 92): 0% <br>Swap Usage (W> 25, C> 50): 27%</b>|MemUsed=0%;85;92 SwapUsed=27%;25;50

root at server:~# free -k
               total        used        free      shared buff/cache   available
Mem:        2039560      804156      435688       21404 799716     1010344
Swap:        975868           0      975868

The host is a VM (VMware) running Ubuntu 16.04 server. Any idea on this inconsistency?

Regards,
Samuel Bancal

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