CPU Load vs Utilization

list TJ Yang
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:46:35 -0600
Message-Id: <user-fe8753414f78@xymon.invalid>

Recently a concern was raised by my Xymon user.

On Xymon Unix machine's (R3) CPU column is showing CPU load number (0 to 20+).
On Windows machine(R2) using bbwin CPU column is showing CPU
Utilization number in percentage(0%-100%).

Shouldn't we  distinguish Unix CPU and Windows CPU columns ?
Since they are using two different metric.


R1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#CPU_load_vs_CPU_utilization
R2: http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=winxptest&SERVICE=cpu
      Windows client is using CPU Utilization in %
R3:  http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=voodoo.hswn.dk&SERVICE=cpu
      This debian Unix machine is using CPU load number.

tj
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T.J. Yang