The amount of processing units of the CPU used to execute a task and how long it takes.
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Total CPU Utilization of a Server
How to find total CPU utilization of a server using SNMP ? I am trying to find the CPU utilization % of one server having 64 CPU's ?
Thanks.

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100% Hardware IRQ while PHP just seems to hang for a second
I'm running the FLOW3 Quickstart on a Fedora machine (virtualized on Windows, if that helps). Each and every single request takes about 1.2 seconds to run the most simple example of this framework. I ran top and was expecting to see some CPU or I/O…

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CPU usage messuring?
I have a Windows 2003 cloud server and I did like to checkout the current usage of cpu and memory of 2 applications I have currently running but I am not sure of what would be the right tools to check these out on a VPS server.
What tools should I…

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How many cpus needed to check a 100 million digit prime number efficiently?
If I had access to potentially large number of CPUs and wanted to quickly check 100 million digit numbers for primality using a map-reduce architecture, how many CPUs would be necessary? Each of the mapped compute instances would perform efficient…

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Scalability problem (Tornado). Can't figure it out, holding up launch
Thanks guys, any ideas/insight are appreciated b/c this is driving me crazy.
Problem: Only about 3 or 4 users can use the server simultaneously before app grinds to a halt.
Currently we see massive spikes in the CPU usage with normal usage. This is…

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CPU & Memory Usage Log & Performance
I want to have an idea of the amount of CPU and memory that is being used. I have a website hosted using IIS, and have clients connecting to it. I want to find out the amount of load that the CPU, RAM and the network has when multiple clients…

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Windows 2000 Domain Controller CPU running at 100%
We are running a Windows 2000 Server as a domain controller and file server. 2 weeks ago, the machine was running fine. Then, after a power-outage and a restart, the machine became sluggish and intermittently stopped giving out DHCP (this can be…

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uWSGI touch-reload feature not working with 100% CPU
On my development box, I have configured uWSGI to reload every time a file gets touched (using the --touch-reload command line argument).
When I specify a non-existent file, I get a warning in the uWSGI logs. If I specify an existing file (say,…

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IIS7: How to handle application pools which uses too much memory or CPU?
How to handle application pools which uses too much memory or CPU? I would like to have possibility to select for how much time application pool is using certain amount of memory or cpu (or both) before it will be recycled. Any idea how to achieve…

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Dual CPU Intel Xeon E5620 OR Single CPU Intel Core i7 980X
We are setting up a Windows 2008 Server to serve as NAT/VPN access server for our local network. Previous server we used for NAT/VPN was an Intel X3440 (single cpu) , during peak hours CPU usage was well over 80% !
Should we get a dual cpu or a…

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Webserver max CPU when apache and MYSQL are ran together
This website has been running fine without issues, Recently it went down.
After some investigation it looks like the combo of MYSQL and Apache bring the box to its knees. Apache can run find serving static web pages and MYSQL can run fine when the…

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Kill w3wp.exe if it is working on 100% cpu over a period of time
Im running a ASP.NET website on Windows 2008 and IIS7.
From time to time my w3wp.exe start spiking into 100% CPU, and the website hangs.
I have not found the reason for this, but that is irrelevant at the moment. All I want is to configure the…

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finding out heat generated due to applications
One of my server is heavily heated randomly.There are a couple of applications running on it.
Is there some way I can track which application is generating more heat or consuming more CPU cycles.

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Linux: CPU usage artificially capped somehow?
This is the CPU usage graph of a server:
It seems that the CPU usage reached a hard limit at 24. This is a 32-core server so it should be able to go beyond 24 with ease. But that's not the case.
Is it possible that there's a cap on CPU usage on…

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MySQL server CPU usage shot up for no apparent reason. Any idea why?
I have a server dedicated to MySQL. In the middle of the night its CPU usage just shot up for no apparent reason. Here're the graphs:
As you can see CPU usage just shot up at Fri 3:30am. Most of the increase is in system, not user. The MySQL server…

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