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The amount of processing units of the CPU used to execute a task and how long it takes.

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Need help trouble shooting high CPU usage by PHP-fpm

There is a problem that is driving me crazy. After the day I tried to fix the CPU usage problem of my VPS, the CPU load has grown from 60% to 150%, and I have no idea what causes the problem. Please help me. I had installed a copy of mediawiki on a…
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Intermittent high CPU (100%) on production webserver

X-Post from StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9465123/intermittent-high-cpu-100-on-production-webserver We have a web cluster with 3 web-servers, each with 24 cores & 24GB mem. Our application is latest patched ASP.NET 4.0, With…
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SQL Server suddenly using only a small portion of CPU

We've got a Windows 2008 R2 server running SQL Server 2008. All of a sudden, the SQLServer process is refusing to go above 20% CPU usage. As of last week, when running a heavy query against the db it would rise to 100% usage as I would expect. We've…
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CPU's on Hyper-V host system is just idling, even though VM's are at full throttle

I have a server that is running Windows 2008 64 bit Hyper-V, with 8 gigs of RAM and Intel Xeon X3440 @ 2.53 Ghz, which gives me 8 logical cores in the performance monitor on the host system. I have set up three Virtual Machines, all running Windows…
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When is sustained 100% CPU utilization not a worry?

Please help refine a discussion going on in our shop. Consider the following scenario. There is a Microsoft VPC running several apps and services (Windows 2003 server). The server has two or three critical roles. Every so often, CPU utilization goes…
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top command - cpu from processes do not add up

I understand the various types of cpu usage reported by the top command (6.5%us, 17.2%sy, 0.0%ni, etc...), but why does the total %CPU for each process not add up to any of the Cpu(s) values? For example, below the java process is consuming 77.5%…
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Does WMI cause CPU Creep?

I have a few servers, running Server 2003 Std/Ent and SQL 2000/2005, that I've noticed will start showing higher CPU usages over time. Stopping the WMI service and restarting it will always bring it back down. It's not a huge creep, but after a…
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Artificially Generate CPU Steal

Anyone know of a good way to artificially generate CPU steal? I have some automation I want to test which is triggered by CPU Steal, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to force CPU Steal to occur. I've got the virtual machine pegged at…
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How to debug Node + Socket.io CPU Issues

We are running a Node Socket.io server with Express 3. The server is monitored using Forever. The service is running well, but the CPU grows throughout the day, until it reaches 90%+ and then suddenly drops back down to ~20%, as shown in the graphs…
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VMware - High CPU utilization on Windows 7 guest VM

I've just added some Windows 7 virtual machines to an existing VMWare vSphere 5.1 cluster. The hosts and vCenter are 5.1 with current updates via Update Manager. Looking at the vSphere client performance graphs, I see random sustained jumps in the…
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Uneven CPU core utilization

tl;dr: First CPU core is consistently saturated, all other cores are consistently under-loaded. A VM, inside Ubuntu-based Xen XCP: $ uname -a Linux MYHOST 2.6.38-15-virtual #59-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 27 16:40:18 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $…
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How can I investigate sustained high CPU usage by Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.ClientAccess.Service.exe?

One CAS server in our array has nearly 90% of its 4 CPUs used. The remaining CAS servers are at 30 percent. How should I investigate what is causing this increase? Below is a graph of: Six (6) CAS servers serving 3,000 users in RPC/HTTPS…
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100% CPU when doing 4 or more concurrent requests with Magento

Currently I'm having trouble with a server running Magento, it's unbelievably slow. It's a VPS with a few Magento installations on it used for development, so I'm the only one using them. When I do 4 request all 2 seconds after each other I'm…
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CentOS - High CPU Usage at a particular time in the night

I have a CentOS-5 server that has very little load. A typical output of "sar" command shows like this: 02:20:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 02:30:01 PM all 0.63 0.00 1.23 0.31 …
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Is EBS naturally CPU-hungry?

We have an m1.medium EC2 instance with a small (15G) EBS drive, running both Rails 3 and a PostgreSQL server. We've noticed CPU spikes at odd times, and finally realized that even simple, sustained EBS access seems to pin the CPU. For instance,…
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