pidstat output over 100% for %CPU and %user in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We noticed that the values of %CPU and %user were sometimes over 100% in the output of pidstat.
  • Why does it happen?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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