Procs Warning

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Martyn wrote:

> Not being very familiar with Ubuntu and similar systems I want to  
> try and find out how many processors to monitor, I just started to  
> monitor a fresh install of Ubuntu server to see what results I get  
> back, at the minute I'm getting a Warning telling me 153 processors.
>
> How many do you monitor?
>
120
5000
others in between.
depends on the system and what processes/daemons are running on it.

The question you should be asking is what is normal for the specific  
server you are monitoring. I have systems where thousands of processes  
are normal and other systems where only just over a hundred is normal.

Spend a few days periodically counting the number of processes. Find  
the max and use that as your starting point. Tune up if you get false  
alarms. Tune down if you don't get alarms when you should have.

--
Marc


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