Re^7: portable way to get system load average

If the health of these systems are critical to your business is there a reason you aren't monitoring their load, as well as other things such as memory disk space and services using something like Big Sister, which has alerting mechanisms as well as real time monitoring?

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Re^8: portable way to get system load average by loadaverage (Novice) on Jul 07, 2010 at 12:19 UTC
monitoring and throttling are 2 different things... the maintenance daemon just sleeps again if the load is higher than a configured threshold and picks up its chores when the other daemons are idle.	[reply]
Re^9: portable way to get system load average by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 07, 2010 at 12:37 UTC
"monitoring and throttling are 2 different things" Obviously. "the maintenance daemon just sleeps again if the load is higher than a configured threshold and picks up its chores when the other daemons are idle." If this is why you want to get the load average I suggest reading BrowserUks advice.	[reply]