Something I already noticed in my previous company is the fact that snmpd is suffering badly from memory leaks.
For example:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13904 snmp 15 0 856m 837m 2268 S 0 64.2 0:13.02 snmpd
This is from an amd64 xen system, whereas on an i386 xen host it looks like:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3279 snmp 16 0 8064 1668 912 S 0.0 0.3 33:11.93 snmpd
Both are Etch systems, so same versions.
I’ve found Bug #421906 and my amd64 host is indeed using 2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-amd64 whereas my i386 is using 2.6.18-5-xen-686.
Does this mean that using 2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 would solve my snmpd problems, dear lazyweb?