The amount of processing units of the CPU used to execute a task and how long it takes.
Questions tagged [cpu-usage]
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Guaranteeing Shell Responsiveness on Pegged System
So my system is getting DOS'd, or I've just opened a kind-of-huge file (openstreetmaps planet.osm). The system goes totally unresponsive... so unresponsive that it'll take about 10 minutes to get into my shell, run top, and kill the offending…

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Web server CPU Utilization slowly increasing with LAMP stack?
I made a ton of changes to my website this year and noticed that my CPU Utilization has been gradually increasing for a couple of months (it slowly went from around 0% to 60% in about 2 months). After restarting my server a couple weeks ago, it went…

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Inexplicably high total CPU usage when itemized view shows less
I'm having issues with CPU usage on a WinServ08 machine: Effectively, the CPU usage (and more noticeably on core 0 out of 3) is higher than I'd think, and task manager (when sorted by CPU %) shows only a few processes above 0 (and those don't add up…

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Zabbix - UserParameter Powershell script item is 'not supported' - CPU per process monitoring
I'm new to zabbix and I'm trying to create custom User Parameter to Monitor CPU utility per process(Windows Machine).
I have a powershell script and a user parameter, I also added a new item under zabbix -> Configuration -> hosts, but I keep getting…

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High CPU Load and High I/O wait time : Mysql process
i am fairly new to the role and the technology. we have a Network server that receives the telemetry data from sensors and temeletry data is stored in MYSQL dabatase. we have a front end portal which we use for device management and queries the…

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Significantly downgrading a server processor in light of extremely idle CPU?
I'm considering migrating my database to a new server. The new server has a much less performant CPU, but more RAM and a faster SSD. Also, it is half the monthly price.
Based on available CPU benchmarks the new CPU may have 50% less processing power…

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MySQL 500% CPU Usage and Crashes Server
My dedicated server is a XEON E3 1240 V3 8GB DDR3 1TB HDD SATA (4 cores @ 3.4 GHz), which I've had for a couple of days only and just finished migrating about 20 wordpress sites to it (each database around 50MB to 150MB in size). The server has…

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How to measure GB-seconds for AWS EC2
We are researching on the possibilities of moving our app from EC2 based implementation to AWS lambda. We are trying to project how much money we will be saving if we do so. The lambda pricing says it gives 400000 GB-seconds free per month and a…

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How to visualize current CPU usage of a pod with Grafana
Is there a way to visualize current CPU usage of a pod in a K8S cluster?
I tried different Prometheus metrics like namespace_pod_name_container_name:container_cpu_usage_seconds_total:sum_rate and other similar ones, but I always get average value…

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Local x Server processing time (only CPU)
I'm having some HUGE differences on running time when comparing local x server processes.
Our laboratory has a dedicated server running Ubuntu 14 LTS as OS and PBS for Job scheduling. In total, there are 96 cores split in two queues. We conduce…

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Amazon Aurora read-only slaves slowly increase to 100% CPU and die
We have a master database instance hosted on AWS Aurora (mysql) and have many read-only slaves being replicated from it. The master and the 4-12 autoscaling slaves are currently of db.r4.4xlarge size and engine version: 5.7.12.
Each slave comes…

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Get CPU utilization in frequency for a specific proccess in Linux
I want to get the realtime CPU frequency which is using by a process in Linux. I think I should use top command. But I want to know the '%CPU' column in top is the percent of CPU usage for a process per 1 core or per all CPU cores? for example, in…

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Windows Servers Commandline/PowerShell How to capture, CPU utilization as there in TaskManager?
For Monitoring windows 2012/2008 performance,
I need to capture CPU utilization along with top 3 process names consuming CPU at the most, on Windows 2012/2008 Servers over command line.
I've tried the following, but none of them matches as with the…

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Improving NGINX Throughput on a Single SSL Thread
We are configuring a file delivery server using nginx. The server will be serving large files over HTTPS.
We have run into an issue where we can only achieve around 25MB/s on a single HTTPS thread.
We have tested using a non-HTTPS single download…

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Identify the top processes when the overall system has large CPU utilization in Ubuntu server
I have a Ubuntu server running in EC2.
Occasionally, I get a large CPU usage 99+% utilization as measured in EC2 monitoring dashboard, even though most times it is less than 10%.
Since traffic to my site is spiky, and many times happens at the…

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