check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

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check_load --- divide by number of cpus?
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Subject:	check_load --- divide by number of cpus?
Group:	Nagios-users
From:	Terry
Date:	8 May 2008

I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is dividing the load
average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do? the 'uptime'
command on a box does not do this. So, if I have an 8 core box
sitting with a load average of 8, its the same as a single core box
sitting with a load average of 1? I'll see the same type of server
response? Thoughts?

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