[mrtg] monitoring system load

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Hello,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:25:15 +0200, "DA Forsyth" <iwrtech at iwr.ru.ac.za>
wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2007 , Zbigniew Szalbot entreated about
>  "[mrtg] monitoring system load":
> 
> Hiya
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am very new to mrtg. I would like to use it to monitor system load.
>> To that end I installed mrtg 2.15.2 on a FreeBSD system (I used ports
>> for that).
>>
>> I started mrtg from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ in a daemon mode.
> 
> I call it from Cron since I have different periods, 5 10 15 and 30
> minutes, for different .cfg files.

Thank you for really useful suggestions! Just to explain - I have found out
that the reason no data was saved in my webdir was that it had a wrong usr.
When I chowned it, it started to load. However, after 30 minutes of running
I see something like:
Maximum:  	0.0 %  	0.0 %  	0.0 %
 Loaded: 	10.0 % 	3.0 % 	4.0 %

Is this OK - that is will it with time start to show real CPU usage? I hope
so :) Thank you again!

Warm regards,

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot