>> I check system load like so: >> >> [root at server cron.daily]# w >> 10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 >> >> I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG. Anyone >> know of some examples of doing this? > > Wrote this simple perl script: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > my $uptime = `uptime`; > my $load = ( split /load/, $uptime )[1]; > $load = ( split /,/, $load )[1]; > chomp $load; > print "$load\n"; Isn't that a bit overkill? cut -d"" -f2 /proc/loadavg > It spits out 5 minute load average. Would like to just have MRTG > graph the result every 5 minutes. Alexander