#interesting

1 messages · Page 1 of 1 (latest)

pseudo rune
#

hmm

#

@fathom apex

#

This looks like something for #praise btw, but I don't think the mods will moderate ya for this.

toxic sandal
#

I'm all eyes...

fathom apex
# 
01:31:31 info I'll SSH into the server and run the health check commands. Let me start by connecting and gathering the system information.
01:31:31 info Now I have all the system information. Let me compile a concise health check summary:

---

## System Health Check Summary for 10.0.1.10 (Proxmox VE Host)

### 📊 System Overview
- **Uptime:** 133 days, 7 hours 11 minutes
- **Load Average:** 6.00, 6.17, 6.90 (current, 1min, 5min, 15min)
- **User logged in:** 1

### 💾 Memory Status
- **Total:** 377GB
- **Used:** 151GB (40%)
- **Free:** 6.7GB
- **Available:** 226GB (60% free for new workloads)
- **Swap:** 7.5GB used of 8GB (94% utilized) ⚠️

### 💿 Disk Usage
- **Root partition (/):** 46% used (41GB of 94GB) - Healthy
- **Docker overlay:** 46% used
- **Other partitions:** All healthy with plenty of space

### 🔥 Top CPU Consumers
1. **kvm - better-monitoring (VM 134):** 98.5% CPU
2. **kvm - k3s-worker-2 (VM 129):** 93.7% CPU
3. **kvm - k3s-worker-1 (VM 124):** 55.1% CPU
4. **kvm - netbox (VM 108):** 44.8% CPU
5. **kvm - k3s-master-proxmox-1 (VM 130):** 38.9% CPU

*Multiple KVM VMs running heavy workloads (k3s cluster, monitoring, netbox, security, nginx)*

### 📈 Top Memory Consumers
1. **k3s-worker-2 (VM 129):** 7.9% memory (32GB allocated)
2. **security (VM 106):** 7.0% memory (32GB allocated)
3. **k3s-worker-1 (VM 124):** 4.0% memory (32GB allocated)
4. **netbox (VM 108):** 3.4% memory (16GB allocated)
5. **k3s-worker-3 (VM 127):** 3.0% memory (32GB allocated)

### ⚠️ Log Errors
**Recurring Issue:** `pveproxy` shows repeated "got inotify poll request in wrong process - disabling inotify" errors
- **Frequency:** ~every 3-10 minutes throughout the day
- **Impact:** Proxmox API proxy losing inotify functionality (likely non-critical but indicates a bug)
- **Count:** 20+ occurrences in recent logs
# 

### 🟢 Running Services (48 total)
All critical services are running:
- ✅ Ceph cluster (mon, mgr, osd0, osd1)
- ✅ Docker & containerd
- ✅ Proxmox services (pvedaemon, pveproxy, pvestatd, pvescheduler)
- ✅ Corosync cluster engine
- ✅ Chrony (NTP)
- ✅ SSH, Postfix, DNS (PowerDNS)
- ✅ Monitoring (Wazuh agent, smartmontools)
- ✅ Network (Tailscale, LXC, ZFS)

### 🏥 Overall Health Assessment

**Status: HEALTHY WITH MINOR CONCERNS**

✅ **Good:**
- System stable for 133+ days
- Root disk at healthy 46% usage
- Memory available (226GB free)
- All critical services operational
- Multiple VMs running (k3s cluster, network services, monitoring)

⚠️ **Warnings:**
1. **High swap usage (94%)** - System is actively using swap despite having 226GB available. This could indicate memory pressure from VMs or suboptimal swap configuration
2. **Load average ~6.0** - High but expected given multiple CPU-intensive VMs running
3. **pveproxy inotify errors** - Recurring but likely non-critical Proxmox API proxy issue

🔧 **Recommendations:**
1. Investigate high swap usage - VMs may need memory allocation review
2. Monitor pveproxy errors - may need Proxmox update or config fix
3. Consider monitoring VM performance if k3s cluster shows degradation

**No critical failures detected. System is operational with expected load from virtualization workloads.**
pseudo rune
#

226gbs and using swap is CRAZY.

fathom apex
#

This was with Qwen3.5-122B at 8bit, fwiw. Not a common local model, but still pretty capable, and able to do a lot without tripping over it's own digital self. 🙂

#

Yeah, I don't know what it's using the swap for, given that it has plenty of RAM free.

toxic sandal
#

OK so it's a series of unrelated calls and checks, not a long coherent thread that could get tangled... but that's definitely respectable performance for what it is.

fathom apex
#

But that's one of my Proxmox cluster servers, not the model. 🙂

#

True. It was a quick test... I could have it try to debug something. Maybe ask it why there's swap usage when there's so much RAM available, but at the same time that might have a simple answer that wouldn't tell me what its long-term planning process is.

#

Hah! Okay, fair... I dug into this, and found that it did one tool call. Now it put together a really good tool call for it, but it looks like this:

"name": "exec",
"arguments": {
  "command": "ssh root@10.0.1.10 \"echo '=== UPTIME ===' && uptime && echo '=== MEMORY ===' && free -h && echo '=== DISK ===' && df -h && echo '=== TOP CPU ===' && ps aux --sort=-%cpu | head -10 && echo '=== TOP MEM ===' && ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -10 && echo '=== ERRORS ===' && journalctl -p err -n 20 --no-pager 2>/dev/null || dmesg | tail -20 && echo '=== SERVICES ===' && systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running --no-pager\"",
  "pty": false,
  "timeout": 60
}

So not as good a test as I'd hoped, but it did come up with a good tool use choice, without being told to.

toxic sandal
#

Damn clankers, really good at these 1-liners.