The value is loadaverage * 100. Of course, it might be up to a few minutes old.
On 14/04/11 15:15, Frans Lawaetz wrote: > >> You should run cf-monitord and then simply use $(mon.loadavg) variables >> (see ref manual) > Mark, > > Maybe you can provide some insight on these vars. I actually did look > into using them first but could not interpret their values in a manner > that made them suitable as a replacement for standard load average as > derived from /proc/loadavg in Linux. > > Here is the output of a cf-agent run with the system idle. > > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.av_loadavg is 8.72 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > cf3 Reporting about this... > cf3 R: mon.av_loadavg is 8.72 > cf3 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.dev_loadavg is 11.39 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > cf3 Reporting about this... > cf3 R: mon.dev_loadavg is 11.39 > cf3 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.value_loadavg is 17 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > cf3 Reporting about this... > cf3 R: mon.value_loadavg is 17 > > > I then simulated added load by running a couple of parallel "cat > /dev/zero > /dev/null" > Two metrics actually dropped, the third went up to 105. > > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.av_loadavg is 6.04 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > cf3 Reporting about this... > cf3 R: mon.av_loadavg is 6.04 > cf3 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.dev_loadavg is 9.51 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > cf3 Reporting about this... > cf3 R: mon.dev_loadavg is 9.51 > cf3 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 Promise handle: > cf3 Promise made by: mon.value_loadavg is 105 > cf3 ......................................................... > cf3 > > > The manual (3.1.4) says the exact same thing for each var. > "Observational measure collected every 2.5 minutes from cf-monitord, > description: % kernel load utilization." > > Thanks, > Frans > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
