I finally figured this one out. The reason why the plugin was spewing out the "out of bounds" error was because of the underlying performance issue of the server. When the server becomes slow to respond, Nagios throws this error. The hint provided by Sven proved that it was indeed the disk I/O issue that threw everything out of balance, maybe because the plugin terminates before it could finish what it was doing. Replacing the disk with a faster one solved this issue.<br>
<br>Case closed. Thanks to all who helped!<br><br>Rai<br><br><br>