I have several servers who's load avg is often below 1.0 for days at a time. This morning I happened to check their larrd graphs and noticed that they all had rather odd (at least in the load average sense of things) Y-axis scaling. Instead of a fractional value like 0.2, 0.8, they read 200m, 800m. My BB server with larrd-0.43c, which is graphing the same data (it uses BBRELAY to send it to hobbit), uses the fractional units and I verified my hobbitgraphs.cfg la rrd definitions (seen below) matched those in BB/larrd. Is this something hobbit does? I used the same rrdtool tarball to build both my BB & hobbit servers, so I don't think it's the rrd toolkit.
Tom
[la]
TITLE CPU Load
YAXIS Load
DEF:avg=la.rrd:la:AVERAGE
CDEF:la=avg,100,/
AREA:la#00CC00:CPU Load Average
GPRINT:la:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur)
GPRINT:la:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max)
GPRINT:la:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min)
GPRINT:la:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n