[Xymon] CPU Load vs Utilization

Recently a concern was raised by my Xymon user.

On Xymon Unix machine's (R3) CPU column is showing CPU load number (0 to 20+). On Windows machine(R2) using bbwin CPU column is showing CPU Utilization number in percentage(0%-100%).

Shouldn't we distinguish Unix CPU and Windows CPU columns ? Since they are using two different metric.

R1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_(computing)#CPU_load_vs_CPU_utilization R2: http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=winxptest&SERVICE=cpu Windows client is using CPU Utilization in % R3: http://xymon.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=voodoo.hswn.dk&SERVICE=cpu This debian Unix machine is using CPU load number.

tj

T.J. Yang