sensu/sensu-community-plugins — pull request #544 by jjshoe (2014-04-04 16:03:25+00:00)
Title: loadaverage needs to take into account the number of cores

From the uptime manpage:

System load averages is the average number of processes that are either in a runnable or uninterruptable state. A process in a runnable state is either using the CPU or waiting to use the CPU. A process in uninterruptable state is waiting for some I/O access, eg waiting for disk. The averages are taken over the three time intervals. Load averages are not normalized for the number of CPUs in a system, so a load average of 1 means a single CPU system is loaded all the time while on a 4 CPU system it means it was idle 75% of the time.