CPU load value mismatch

[Bharathu]

Greetings to all,

I have noticed that the CPU load being displayed on my windows agents is not matching to what is being displayed in the task manager of windows XP. When the CPU load is 100%, zabbix records a value like 6.5 or 7.5 as the CPU load. :confused:

Can anyone explain how to interpret this? Or can we do something to show the exact values of the CPU load in the graphs? Someone please give me useful insights into this.

[dantheman]

My understanding of CPU load is the number of "tasks" or calculations or something that's waiting to run through the processor, not how much of the processer is being used. so the 6.7 has nothign to do with a percentage of the CPU that's being utilized.

The item you can run to watch the utilization is system.cpu.util[,system,avg1] instead of the system.load I think the CPU Load is.

[Bharathu]

Hi,

Thanks so much for the reply and the useful insight :) . It is working now.