On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:39:54PM +1000, Darryl Lewis wrote: > Perhaps there was a 'spike' in the data that set the max to a crazy figure. > If you know the maximum possible, set that as a limit in the rrd.
Nope, no spikes... the values being graphed are all correct, it's just the numbers in the legends that are off. And there really is no "maximum" possible... in general, you want the load to stay at or below the number of processors you have, but there's nothing in the world stopping it from climbing much higher. One of my machines went up to around 150 under a heavy spam attack once :-) I'm guessing that maybe MRTG / RRDTool is doing some kind of math on the numbers. I thought that using "gauge" would prevent that, but... -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
