psutil.cpu_times_percent(interval=0.0) requires two anchor points to
compute a delta. Before the second anchor is laid down (~1 ms after the
first), it returns either all zeros or a partial sample like
(idle=1.0, every other field=0.0). The cpu plugin computes
total = 100 - idle, so an unsettled sample produces total=99-100% — a
visible spike that persists for one TTL window (1 s by default) after
startup, while v4 stays at the real value because CpuPercent primes
psutil in __init__.
Sampler-level fix: detect unsettled samples (sum of time-percent
fields < 50%), sleep 50 ms, and re-sample once before caching. The
guard runs inside the asyncio lock so concurrent get_aggregate calls
share the same retry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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