<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7654.12"> <TITLE>Determining what is causing a high load reported by check_load plugin </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi there -- We are running Nagios 3.1.2 server, and the client that is the subject of this e-mail is running version 2.6 of the nrpe client. The check_load plugin, version 1.4, is indicating the past three readings are the following: load average: 71.00, 71.00, 70.95 CRITICAL The critical threshold of the plugin has been set to the 30, 25, 20 settings. When I checked the client in question, the first thing I did was to run the top command. The results are shown below: CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle CPU2 states: 1.0% user, 4.0% system, 0.0% nice, 93.0% idle Mem: 2064324K av, 2032308K used, 32016K free, 0K shrd, 509924K buff Swap: 2096472K av, 21432K used, 2075040K free 1035592K cached The one thing that I noticed was the amount of free memory was at thirty-two megabytes. I wanted to know if that was what was causing the critical status to occur, or if there is something(s) else that I should investigate. Thanks. The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.</BODY> </HTML>