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Steven_Hotovy_8
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May 25, 2005

Getting CPU Utilization in BigIP

I have several questions regarding CPU performance monitoring of the BigIP.     1. What method should be invoked to get CPU utilization on the BigIP?   2. Can the STATISTIC_TM_TOTAL_...
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Jun 02, 2005
I have run a sequence of get_global_statistics calls and have observed that the STATISTIC_TM_IDLE_CYCLES and STATISTIC_TM_TOTAL_CYCLES do not consistently increase. For example, 5 consecutive values for the STATISTIC_TM_IDLE_CYCLES variable, sampled every 30 seconds, are:

 

 

1796202495

 

3796951039

 

3976587147

 

2452193173

 

2277928730

 

 

Since this statistic is supposed to be cumulative, the values should never decrease. Any idea of what the problem might be?