Nagios reporting Load Usage

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Jake Solid wrote:

> Nagios did a good job reporting a high level of load on one of my servers
> during the morning
>
> CRITICAL - load average: 59.62, 31.70, 13.53
>
> Then it sent a recovery alert showing the load as:
>
> OK - load average: 1.72, 1.72, 4.56
>
> How can I find out what exactly put the load a that high level?

After the fact? That will be tough. Go over all of your log files. At 
least you know the timeframe. But going in after the load is low again can 
only give you partial information.

You need to go in when the load is absurd and catch the bandit redhanded.

Hugo.

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