Calculating Server Load

[tech_support]

How would It calculate server load and output it (0.0 through to 1.0)?

[tech_support]

No one knows?

[thetestingsite]

Are you on a Windows server or Linux server? If on a linux, check to see if you have a file (I believe it is in the /etc directory) called loadavg. If so, make a php script to parse that file and print out the text. This will be the server's load average. I have had to do this with a few of our Cobalt Servers because a few of them would overload at like 8 in the morning everyday for about 3 weeks straight.

Anyways, hope this helps.

[tech_support]

No, it's a Windows server.

[thetestingsite]

I seen a processer load script floating around the web. (I think I saw it on hotscripts). But I'm not sure how it would be done in Windows, sorry.

[tech_support]

So nobody knows?

[mburt]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ccec1c70-a3df-404a-93e0-b74077e3d013.aspx
Maybe, I haven't checked it out yet.

[tech_support]

I think that's for Microsoft Exchange Server.

[mburt]

Yeah, sorry I didn't help. I just googled it and found a resource.

[tech_support]

Found one! :D

http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

[thetestingsite]

Nice script. I might need to utilize that for some of our servers. BTW, nice avatar.