[Xymon] CPU LOAD

[Luca Tolomelli]

Ok, thank you for your help :)

Il giorno dom 31 mar 2019 alle ore 13:39 Martin Lenko <lenko99 at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hi Luca,
> the answer is a bit more complex than that, but basically, load 2 on 2 CPU
> machine means that the machine is just about able to cope with the load
> thrown at it. If the load is higher than the number of CPUs for a longer
> period of time, you might have a performance problem.
> More detailed explanation here:
> https://www.howtogeek.com/194642/understanding-the-load-average-on-linux-and-other-unix-like-systems/
>
> I usually set the warning/yellow threshold to a value slightly higher than
> the number of CPUs and the critical/red to twice the number of
> warning/yellow value. At least on machines with a small number of CPUs.
>
> I case of 2CPU machine I would set it to:
> LOAD 2.5 5.0
>
> Obviously, if you should review the CPU load patterns of your server and
> update the LOAD config accordingly to make sure the thresholds are not:
> - too low - you might get a lot of false positive alerts
> - too high - you might not notice there is something going and the machine
> is struggling to cope with the load
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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