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CPU registering 200% peak

Hi there - Got a little anomaly on the go. In the CPU & RAM Load - Last Month report, I'm getting a couple of nodes that are apparently experiencing CPU peaks of over 100%. I've got a server experiencing pak cpu of 150%, and another experiencing 200% peak. Why would Orion be logging their peak CPU usage as such?

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mcobb

I just noticed the same thing with my servers. This is happening on 10 of my Windows servers.

FormerMember

Are you running 8.5.1 SP3? We had problems with Windows 2000 servers flatlining at 100% CPU. Looks like the issue has finally been resolved in SP3. We've been running 2 weeks on SP3 and CPU is now looking good on our 2000 servers.

mcobb

I applied ServicePack 3 last night on all of my pollers and web server, but I am still seeing the same thing. Will this go away with time? I am guessing it is not going to fix last month's reports?

FormerMember

I think this is because the MIB orion uses for memory lumps physical memory and swap space. If a device has 100MB of physical memory and is using 90MB, then the percent memory used will be reported as 90%. If it is using 100MB, then percent memory used will be reported as 100%. However, if the device is using 100MB of memory (all of it) AND 50MB of swap space, then the percent memory used will be reported as 150%.