Hi,
the loadavg is not percent - as the manual states, it is absolute value: number
of processes in the run queue. The practical limit depends on the number of
CPUs and the typical load pattern - a rule of thumb we use is 2 processes per
CPU core. If the machine has for example 48 cores, the loadavg of 96 is usually
acceptable. There could be also spikes which are common and you may want to
suppress false alerts, the example shows setup where high loadavg values for
several consecutive cycles are needed before the alert is triggered.
To make the configuration easier, i think we can introduce some kind of "per
CPU core" load average test, so the configuration will work the same regardless
of CPU cores count, something like:
if loadavg(1m) per core > 1.9 then alert
Best regards,
Martin
> On 8 Apr 2019, at 15:38, Jamie Burchell <ja...@ib3.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> On the Monit documentation on “System resource tests”
> (https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#System-resource-tests
> <https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#System-resource-tests>)
> the “loadavg” figures look like they could be percentages rather than
> absolute values. Is that correct, or am I misreading?
>
> Most of the examples I’ve seen elsewhere for using the “loadavg” checks
> appear to be using single figures
> (https://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/ConfigurationExamples
> <https://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/ConfigurationExamples> - System Services).
>
> If I’ve misunderstood then I’ll probably want to calculate these values based
> on the number of processors – but not necessary if these are percentages?
>
> TIA
> Jamie
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