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   From: john.doe@myemail.invalid   
      
   I write all my shit in GWBasic.   
      
   On Jul 16, 2025 at 6:43:46 AM EDT, "Henrik Carlqvist"   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:07:24 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:   
   >> Ah, I see!  It sounds like your nvgpu-smi-snmp is a handy tool that   
   >> continues to get downloads!  Is it written in C?   
   >   
   > Yes, it is written in C. It started as a fork of another tool to provide   
   > SNMP data from nVidia GPUs buy querying the X server. I rewrote that tool   
   > to instead do the querys by calling the tool nvidia-smi. My reason for   
   > doing that was that I didn't want to assume that an X server is running   
   > as cuda can be used to perform calculations on a GPU even without any X   
   > server.   
   >   
   >> Automatic bit rot?  How does that work?  Is the problem in net-snmp or   
   >> the usage of net-snmp?   
   >   
   > I would say that it is a problem with the net-snmp API and the tools   
   > provided to automagically create skeleton code to use that API. The SNMP   
   > OID values are described in MIB files and they provide tools to   
   > automagically create skeleton code to provide the OID values by SNMP. The   
   > remaining work is only to fill some values with actual data.   
   >   
   > However, this automatic bit rot has not scared me off from writing more   
   > snmp agentx daemons. I also have a project at   
   > https://github.com/henca/obis2snmp which makes it possible to monitor   
   > some utility meters by snmp by connecting extra hardware. I use that to   
   > monitor my electricity meter and my water meter.   
   >   
   > Sorry for getting a bit of topic, my SNMP projects do not have much to do   
   > with any smartphone.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
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