check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:31:07AM -0400, Mike Emigh wrote:
> You're right, it wouldn't work with just a single-threaded process.
> I'm not sure of the specifics of how this would happen, but with
> Oracle we've seen it maxing two CPUs and raising the load to 56 while
> the 6 other cores in the 8 core machine sat idle.  As these situations
> are possible simply dividing by the number of cores wouldn't provide
> precise insight into what's going on.

In light of *this*, it seems to me that the desired goal is to figure
out a way to get the load average *per processor*, and then have one
check_load per processor.

Alternatively, you could get those numbers that top(1) displays for
utilization percentages, and massage *those* to get your load results
per proc; those are split.  But you'd need to average them.

Cheers,
-- jra
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