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kb94: Unix CPU percentages on HPUX inaccurate.


By csmith - Posted on 16 November 2009

Longitude uses the iostat command to collect the CPU_IDLE_PCT statistic. On HP-UX, this command may return inaccurate values, which can result in CPU Busy percentages over 100%, and CPU Idle percentages less than 0.