Help with CPU Check Thresholds

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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Scott Wilkerson <swilkerson at nagios.com>wrote:

> Alex,
>
> It would be very common for a machine with multiple CPU's to have a
> higher load.  On a 16 CPU machine, no processes would be waiting at all
> with a load under 16.
>

Hi,

Yes if all the load is consumed by CPUs, but it's quite rare. For example
with a database the most time is spend on disks I/O, and a 16cpu server
won't help here, you can be overload with a load average > 1 in this case.

The "good" load average is very specific for each server/application. CPU
number is a just a part of the "load" equation.


Jean


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