[Systems] Fwd: Munin alert for bender

Luke Faraone luke at faraone.cc
Wed Aug 5 09:38:35 EDT 2009


On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:14, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:

> I think the figure is in %...  Still, 60% of _system_ load is
> suspicious.  Could it be that all the VM CPU usage gets accounted on  
> the
> host system?

CPU load is, iirc, how many times faster the CPU would have to be to  
handle all the requests made over PERIOD in "realtime".

So 1 CPU load would mean that the processor was dully utalized,  
whereas 60 would mean you would need 60 times more power to handle the  
requests without slowdown.

- lf


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