collectd/collectd — pull request #175 by bvarner (2012-11-09 22:14:38+00:00)
Title: Adds options to allow CPU aggregation on multi-core (processor) machines

I have some DB servers with 24 logical cores running Linux, 24 CPU graphs is a bit overkill when assembling a telemetry HUD for the office big-wigs.

Looks like I'm not the only one.
https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap#Summarize_CPU_information

This is basically a forward-port of the patch found:
http://mailman.verplant.org/pipermail/collectd/2011-March/004415.html