Monitoring System Resources
System Monitor Reference
Job Queues
The job queue monitor checks the average number of processes that have been waiting for CPU and performing disk I/O over the last 1, 5, or 15 minutes. A value of 4 in /system/jobQueue5Min means that at the time of polling there was an average of 4 jobs in the queue over the last 5 minutes.
The MIB variables computerSystemAvgJobs1, computerSystemAvgJobs5, and computerSystemAvgJobs15 from the
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The minimum polling interval is 30 seconds. Unless your system load tends to fluctuate wildly and need
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