On the other hand, for us it was a problem. our mx450's were showing 100% utilization and we were killing it. It even caused it to reboot until we offloaded dns traffic. I wouldn't say they're 100% accurate but I wouldn't say they should be ignored either. Kinda like the lights on your vehicles dash. Many factors go into your utilization and cpu score is driven by packet processing (ids/ips) and anything the mx is routing. Most important is not to exceed your maximum number of flows.. (thus why we had to offload dns)
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