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Here's one that we use.<br>
It requires SAR - usually that's not a big deal. <br>
Thomas<br>
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ffwqe efwa wrote:
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<div>Andy,</div>
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<div>I was under the impression that load was more indicative on
process-wait for cpu cycles and general system performance than actual
cpu usage. For example, heavy processor wait on disk IO could cause
high load without actually consuming CPU usage, amongst other things.
Am I incorrect?
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<div>If I can rely on check_load to return .50 in a 5 minute average
if 50% of the cpu is used for five minute straight this should work for
me needs. My gut feeling tells me it never quite works this way.
Additionally, can't a momentary amount of high load (greater than 1.0
or 100% cpu) cause a number above 1/100% to be averaged in and cause
these measurements to be off?</div>
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<div>Although it could be nice to monitor cpus individually in a
multi-cpu system for hung processes, etc, I can live without this if
check_load works nicely.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Andy Shellam</b> <<a
href="mailto:andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk">andy.shellam-lists@mailnetwork.co.uk</a>>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That's
exactly what the load average is - it shows how busy the<br>
processor is/has been over the last 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes.
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_%28computing%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)</a><br>
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Andy.<br>
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ffwqe efwa wrote:<br>
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> Simple question -- is there a plugin or easy method to check for
<br>
> processor usage over either a 1 minute or 5 minute average on linux<br>
> machines? There's a check_load plugin, but I can't find anything
that<br>
> would easily function as a check_cpu plugin.<br>
> !DSPAM:37,460c269a103001795015003!
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