Hi, the load on linux systems is considered high when it is higher than number for CPUs seen by the system. The value is a number of processes waiting in queue to get CPU time (even if it is waiting for disk I/O), not a utilisation in percentage so 50/55 is too high unless you have a server with 40-48 CPUs/cores. My default setting is "LOAD 5.0 10.0" for all machines with 4 CPUs.
Regards, Martin
On 25 August 2014 16:03, Novosielski, Ryan <novosirj at ca.rutgers.edu> wrote:
Not if it's not a good idea for you to have a load of 55 on your system.
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On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:54, usa ims <usaims at yahoo.com> wrote:
I just got a critical on a system saying that my load was critical:
But it is not under load:
top - 10:33:08 up 37 days, 23:20, 0 users, load average: 0.88, 0.79, 0.73 Tasks: 390 total, 1 running, 389 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.4%id, 0.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 74377396k total, 6224692k used, 68152704k free, 661256k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 2117028k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
19487 www-data 15 -5 451m 202m 12m S 2 0.3 44:12.04 mono
19490 www-data 15 -5 449m 195m 12m S 2 0.3 37:49.91 mono
19499 www-data 15 -5 451m 199m 12m S 2 0.3 44:15.72 mono
19508 www-data 15 -5 442m 199m 12m S 2 0.3 43:58.24 mono
19513 www-data 15 -5 442m 202m 12m S 2 0.3 44:07.38 mono
19514 www-data 15 -5 451m 199m 12m S 2 0.3 44:02.62 mono
19515 www-data 15 -5 515m 196m 12m S 2 0.3 44:03.74 mono
19516 www-data 15 -5 508m 199m 12m S 2 0.3 44:07.35 mono
19517 www-data 15 -5 453m 198m 12m S 2 0.3 43:52.04 mono
29604 hobbit 20 0 10940 1344 824 R 2 0.0 0:00.03 top
So in my localcient.cfg, I changed the load on cpu to 'LOAD 50.0 55.0'
Was that a good idea?
usaims
DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 1h LOAD 50.0 55.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97
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