Procs Warning

[Lee Azzarello]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Martyn <martyn at chetnet.co.uk> 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.

Wow! That's quite some horsepower.

Unfortunately I think you might be confusing a "processor" as in a CPU
core and a "process" as in a running program. 153 processes is by no
means an insane number for a heavily loaded server. As in any
monitoring situation, you must take some time and define "normal"
before you can decide on the warning/critical thresholds for your
application.

-lee

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