[Nagios-users] Strange fluctuation in load average

2010-06-10 Thread Trisha Hoang
Hi all, When I first installed nagios-3.2.0 with embedded perl enabled, nagios experienced increasing latency, starting at 1 sec and climbed upto 300 within a few hours until restarting nagios. I read on one of the older post suggesting to recompile nagios *without* embedded perl, and that

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange fluctuation in load average

2010-06-10 Thread Matt Simmons
When you say load average, do you mean the 1 minute moving average? And what are you using to display the load average? --Matt On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Trisha Hoang tri...@rockyou.com wrote: Hi all, When I first installed nagios-3.2.0 with embedded perl enabled, nagios experienced

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange fluctuation in load average

2010-06-10 Thread Trisha Hoang
I'm using uptime to obtain the load average. Here's a snippet of the values. 09:17:34 up 5 days, 16:06, 3 users, load average: 2.07, 2.61, 3.45 09:19:34 up 5 days, 16:08, 3 users, load average: 9.09, 4.78, 4.13 09:21:34 up 5 days, 16:10, 3 users, load average: 10.05, 6.69, 4.91 09:23:34 up 5 days,