Question about Load Average graph

cousinscuzzy · Post by **cousinscuzzy** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:40 pm

I'm curious why the default "ucd/net - Load Average" graph template uses stacked 1, 5, and 15 minute averages along with a total. It seems to me that totaling the averages from these different periods doesn't give any meaningful information. Am I missing something?

cousinscuzzy · Post by **cousinscuzzy** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:53 pm

Also they're actually 1, 5, and 10 minute load averages according to /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt. I think the default labeling is wrong.

cousinscuzzy · Post by **cousinscuzzy** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:39 am

Can anyone confirm that I'm right about these things? Or point out my mistakes?

It might be that the default graph templates are only there as examples and not meant to be used without modification but I find this a bit misleading to Cacti/SNMP newbies like me.

Post by **gandalf** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:43 pm

cousinscuzzy wrote:I'm curious why the default "ucd/net - Load Average" graph template uses stacked 1, 5, and 15 minute averages along with a total. It seems to me that totaling the averages from these different periods doesn't give any meaningful information. Am I missing something?

You did not miss anything. It simply looks nicer

Reinhard

cousinscuzzy · Post by **cousinscuzzy** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:47 pm

Thanks, Reinhard. What about the 10 vs 15 minute issue?

BTW, I really appreciate all the support you provide in these forums.

Tiago Cruz · Post by **Tiago Cruz** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:06 am

gandalf wrote:
cousinscuzzy wrote:I'm curious why the default "ucd/net - Load Average" graph template uses stacked 1, 5, and 15 minute averages along with a total. It seems to me that totaling the averages from these different periods doesn't give any meaningful information. Am I missing something?
You did not miss anything. It simply looks nicer
Reinhard

Reinhard,

Please, help me to understand how can I calculate the "real" load average of machine...

I'm seeing on machine: load average: 1.56, 2.81, 3.32

And my graph is going to "0" until "10" now.

Sounds like the graph is the sum of all load, it's correctly?

Thanks!

Tiago Cruz · Post by **Tiago Cruz** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:09 am

Sorry by double-post, but I've found one better example

Current load average: 0.67, 0.65, 0.61

And the picture show almost 2.0 of load...

Post by **gandalf** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:50 pm

Simply change the AREA/STACK/STACK representation into thre LINE1's instead. That's all. It's simply a wrong graph representation of the numbers
Reinhard

Tiago Cruz · Post by **Tiago Cruz** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:35 pm

gandalf wrote:Simply change the AREA/STACK/STACK representation into thre LINE1's instead. That's all. It's simply a wrong graph representation of the numbers
Reinhard

Thanks!

I've changed to:

Code: Select all

#1: AREA / AVERAGE
#2: GPRINT / LAST
#3: AREA / AVERAGE
#4: GPRINT / LAST
#5: AREA / AVERAGE
#6: GPRINT / LAST
#7: GPRINT / AVERAGE

And my boss stop to kill me

Thanks!

Cacti

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