[Xymon] Linux load question

[Galen Johnson]

Any chance you have another entry that could be overriding that setting?
Or maybe it's not matching he entry and falling aback to default?

=G=

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Rothlisberger, John R. <
john.r.rothlisberger at accenture.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
> Analysis.cfg
>
> HOST=serverA
>
>         LOAD    89.0 90.0
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> top - 07:58:55 up 17 days, 19:31, 20 users,  load average: 21.75, 25.16,
> 25.32
>
> ...
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>    PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+
> COMMAND
>
> 121978 user1+    20   0 46.839g 0.040t  50388 S  2774 17.2  18504:34 python
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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