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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a linux server which is alerting on a high load but the load average is lower than my threshold. My question, why is it going red?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Analysis.cfg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> LOAD 89.0 90.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here are the top results – I expect that the alert should be triggered by the load average of 21.75 which is far lower than the thresholds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">top - 07:58:55 up 17 days, 19:31, 20 users, load average: 21.75, 25.16, 25.32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But, there is a single process using a ton of cpu on one of the multiple cores – is this factoring into the alert? If so, why is it not documented?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">121978 user1+ 20 0 46.839g 0.040t 50388 S 2774 17.2 18504:34 python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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