<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 10, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Sandeep Narasimha Murthy wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">1.The server in question has 2 CPUs. When Nagios invokes check_load, does it monitor both the CPUs and reports the combined load average ?</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is only one load average. Load Average is the number of processes in the wait state. They might be there because CPUs are all in use, they might be there because they're blocking on I/O, or swap, or any of a number of other things.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Certainly CPU blocking is the most commonly encountered reason a process might be wait, but by far not the only reason.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><O:P style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; ">2. What are the CRITICAL, WARNING and OK thresholds for Load Average ? I mean when does it launch a Critical state ?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I think that's based on the arguments you pass to check_load IIRC. I know in my environment, we don't even want to know about it til the load average gets around 15 on the 5-minute or 15-minute averages (spikes on the 1-minute average we don't care about, we know they happen, it's only an issue for us if they persist).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your mileage will definitely vary on that, based on your own situation.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV>D</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">--</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Monaco; min-height: 16px; ; font-family: Monaco; "><BR style="; font-family: Monaco; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; ">Derek J. 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