Performance counters will show the server is idle, but yet it won't be able to process requests.

性能计数器会告诉你服务器其实并不忙，但是却无法处理更多的请求。

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We poll the network interface anytime we enter the network driver (typically for transmitting a packet) and from the process scheduler's idle loop.

一旦进入网络驱动(通常是传输一个数据包时)以及在进程调度器的空闲循环的时候，对网络接口进行轮询。

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The basic goal of failover monitoring is to have the Nagios process on the slave host sit idle while the Nagios process on the master host is running.

故障转移监视的基本目标是让主服务器上的Nagios进程运行，同时让辅助服务器上的Nagios进程空闲。

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