Alex, It would be very common for a machine with multiple CPU's to have a higher load. On a 16 CPU machine, no processes would be waiting at all with a load under 16.
Scott Wilkerson Technical Support Specialist ___ Email: swilker...@nagios.com Web: www.nagios.com On 4/1/2013 2:17 AM, Alex Trifonov wrote: > Wow! What kind of hardware and type of load you have on it? > I'm not sure, but it seems to me, that you misunderstood the Load > Average value. I haven't seen ever a system whith Load Average in > normal situation more, than 5-7. > > P.S.: Sorry for my poor English. > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:33:41 -0300 > Net Warrior <netwarrior...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I changed the values to 30,25,20!50,45,40 >> >> Thanks. >> >> 2013/3/26 Edwin Zoeller <edwin.zoel...@ama-assn.org>: >>> -w 15,10,5 -c 30,20,10 >>> >>> This works well for me >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:54 AM >>> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Help with CPU Check Thresholds >>> >>> >>>> This is how I configured the service, my aim is to get an alert >>>> when the CPU load ( uptime ) reaches 10% and a critical when >>>> there is a 20% >>>> >>>> check_command >>>> check_nrpe!check_load!10,4,3!20,15,10 >>>> flap_detection_enabled 0 notifications_enabled 1 >>>> notification_options w,u,r,c >>>> notification_period 24x7 >>>> check_period 24x7 >>>> check_interval 1 >>>> max_check_attempts 2 >>>> first_notification_delay 0 >>>> notification_interval 1 >>>> } >>>> >>>> The problems is that I get WARN when the load is less than that: >>>> WARNING - load average: 1.77, 1.94, 3.04 WARNING - load average: >>>> 2.11, 2.23, 3.45 WARNING - load average: 1.90, 3.59, 4.34 WARNING >>>> - load average: 5.65, 5.05, 4.86 >>> You configured it to warn when the 15-minute average is 3.00, and >>> in your above four examples, the 15-minute averages are all > 3.00. >>> It is working like you configured it to. >>> >>> The plugin's output is 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute average. >>> >>> Benny > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
