Nagios Graphing of Unix Load Average

[Claudio Kuenzler]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:57 PM, <a.smith at ukgrid.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   not sure if Nagios addons are normally disussed here, but I have a
> questions relating to nagiosgraph.
>
> Basically everything works great, except something odd on graphs for
> Unix/Linux systems for Load Average. The graphs themselves look fine,
> but the Avg and Cur values shown below the graphs are things like
> 91.34m. Unix load average is normally a fraction, like 0.10 etc.
> Anyone any idea whats going on?
>

Nagiosgraph uses the 'm' when in the whole graph the load never reaches 1.0
.
So you can take 91.34m as 0.09 load.

As soon as the load has at least once reached 1.0, the smaller loads will
be shown as 0.9, 0.8, etc.


> TBH my main issue is when graphing the RRD in Cacti its also showing
> up with huge number in the millions but the source of the issue seems
> to be something to do with nagiosgraph.
>
> Any ideas gratefully recieved,
>
> thanks, Andy.
>
>
>
>
>
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