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How to calculate CPU Load Average

list Bill Howe
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:35:19 -0600
Message-Id: <user-b918e0183b60@xymon.invalid>

If you would like to auto calculate CPU load based on cores, there is a
script posted to xymonton.org that can do that:
https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:cpu-load-calc
Yes, a little self promotion as I wrote it, but its working well in our
environment and should do the trick for what you are trying to do.
BillOn Wed, 2017-10-25 at 00:45 -0400, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Personally, I'd say that your warn and panic levels should be set to
let you know when something abnormal is happening, rather than trying
to calculate based on cores.  When you have a couple of weeks of cpu
load data in the graphs, you should be able to see the load average
your server normally runs at.  Set the warning level a bit above that
so you get a warning if some process starts hammering the cpu. 
That'll tell you something unexpected is starting.  Set the panic
level somewhat higher.

Ralph Mitchell


On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:49 PM, venkat v <user-90969bebdb2c@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Hi Team,

1)Please help me how to calculate cpu load average i need to
configure alerts in xymon.
2)if i have 4 cores in server what is average load. 
3)in xymon default values 
   LOOAD 5.0 10.0 
how to configured these values.
NOTE : which values based on configured defaults values (LOOAD 5.0
10.0 ) in xymon.

Regards
Venkat Yadav