Question in CPU % Alerts and Top Commands

[Tim Malaney]

Recently upgraded to version 5.8.5 on Red Hat Linux. Alerts that we had running to  identify % idle CPU times now seem unreliable, reporting high utilization where that is not the case. The version of the top command in  /quovadx/cis5.8/integrator/bin reports much higher utilization then the native Linux top command or glance command. Has anyone seen compatibility issues?

In example below Quovadx top shows almost 100% utilized when native top is 14%

/quovadx/cis5.8/integrator/bin/top

CPU states: 41.3% user,  0.0% nice, 52.4% system,  0.0% idle,  6.3% iowait

Native top

Cpu(s):  5.4%us,  8.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st

Wondering if we just cannot use the % CPU alerts.

Thanks

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