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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">I have a Ubuntu server with multiple CPUs and a process which is spread across a few CPUs.</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">When I watch top, I see the %CPU bouncing between 100 and 300 for that process. However, I have the warn set for 85% and it’s not warning: </p><p class="MsoNormal">check_procs -a '-w 85 -c 95 --metric=CPU -v'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">If I drop the warn level to 75% it does warn.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">How is the warn|critical level determined in a multi-CPU environment?</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">TIA!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">~Jason</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>