Processor Monitor Measurment

[ACTSystems]

I am unclear as to what the processor monitor is actually measuring when it polls a device. Example:
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> {xxxxx - xxxx:system.cpu.load[,avg1].last(0)}>5
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> Some help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[nelsonab]

It's polling the system load measurement. This only works on Unix like systems. For further discussion of system load search Google and the forum as a complete discussion of it would take a while. :-)

Short answer, it's the number of processes waiting (due to disk or other IO) or being executed on a CPU. Sometimes it's acceptable for it to be a high number, like 6 or 7, other times it's acceptable if it's always below 1 or 2.