topic Total Processor Busy Overflows SDK 4.1 in Software Development Kit (SDK) and API Discussions

Total Processor Busy Overflows SDK 4.1

DWAYNECAMP — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:15:23 GMT

Hi Guys,

When using the SDK with Perl I have noticed that the value obtained for the total processor busy is often much larger than 100 goes up to 200 + sometimes for high utilized filers. For filers that are lightly utilized it does not overflow.

Has anyone else observed this ? Is there a possible solution or do we have to wait on an SDK update ?

% CPU utilization = (total_processor_busy at time t2 - total_processor_busy at time t1) /(cpu_elapsed_time at time t2 - cpu_elapsed_time at time t1)

Re: Total Processor Busy Overflows SDK 4.1

DWAYNECAMP — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:14:57 GMT

So NMSDK has 3 performance metrics related to the processor:

cpu_busy ( sysstat -x like utilization for processor performance)
avg_processor_busy ( average utilization across all cores )
total_processor_busy (utilization across all cores, example if 2 processors are present and are both at 100%. total processor busy will show 200%)

Therefore it does not overflow. For general sysstat like cpu performance metric "cpu_busy") should be used and not total_processor_busy

Re: Total Processor Busy Overflows SDK 4.1

aashray — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:19:35 GMT

Thank you, this would help others as well.