Sometimes I have an issue when I see a very high utilization on a Brocade switch when doing a "show cpu-utilization" command. Because it may report 99%, but anytime after I run that command, its always down to 1% (or so). Why does it do that? Well, I asked a Brocade engineer that I trust, and his reply was just what I thought (for the most part). He said that the first % rating was pretty much bogus. He says the average values should be right, but the best idea is to run the command 2 or 3 times to get something accurate. Im ok with that, as long as I know the first reported percentage rate may be bogus if its been a while since I ran the command. Here is an example below:
telnet@Switch#sh cpu-utilization
99 percent busy, from 7200216 sec ago <------------- Bogus % rating, run the command again
It's been more than 50 hours since last call, the CPU utilization data collected may have wrapped around and result in high utilization
1 sec avg: 1 percent busy <------------- Should be correct
5 sec avg: 1 percent busy <------------- Should be correct
60 sec avg: 1 percent busy <------------- Should be correct
300 sec avg: 1 percent busy <------------- Should be correct
telnet@Switch#sh cpu-utilization
1 percent busy, from 4 sec ago
1 sec avg: 1 percent busy
5 sec avg: 1 percent busy
60 sec avg: 1 percent busy
300 sec avg: 1 percent busy
telnet@Switch#sh cpu-utilization
1 percent busy, from 62 sec ago
1 sec avg: 1 percent busy
5 sec avg: 1 percent busy
60 sec avg: 1 percent busy
300 sec avg: 1 percent busy
Very interesting.
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Once again, you posted something helpful.
ReplyDeleteI just experienced this on my home 7150-12, same exact thing
Yeah, seems like an essay fix for them. Guess not.
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