[opensuse] Whoa, top shows CPU use at 160% on a Phenom 9850
Listmates, Curious. I've never really put my server under much of a load, but tonight with my dvd creation headaches creating ifo files, I decided to use the ifoedit under windows to see if that would work without demuxing, decoding the perfectly good vob files I had. I have xp as a guest under virtualbox, so from my laptop I used tightVNC to establish a remote session, fired up virtualbox, started xp allocating 2G to the gues, loaded ifoedit, and pressed the go button. It is working great, you just give it the starting vob file and it will step though the remaining vobs in the set creating new ifo files for you. Since processing video takes a while, I thought I would look at the load the server was under and started first with top. top showed 152%, then 157% then 160% and then bounced around between 150-160%. I guess that is due to the quad core and top probably handling 2 cores fine, but getting confused with 4. Anybody else see this? Does it need reporting? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi! Am Montag 27 Juli 2009 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Since processing video takes a while, I thought I would look at the load the server was under and started first with top. top showed 152%, then 157% then 160% and then bounced around between 150-160%. I guess that is due to the quad core and top probably handling 2 cores fine, but getting confused with 4.
Top normalizes load to one core. On a multi-core system you can get <num cores> * 100 %. BTW, what you quoted was probably not load, but CPU utilization. Basically says, that you transcoding cannot use all of your CPU efficiently. Either cause it's io-bound or not parallized enough. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Bach www.marix.org „Der einzige Weg, die Grenzen des Möglichen zu finden, ist ein klein wenig über diese hinaus in das Unmögliche vorzustoßen.“ - Arthur C. Clarke
David C. Rankin wrote:
Since processing video takes a while, I thought I would look at the load the server was under and started first with top. top showed 152%, then 157% then 160% and then bounced around between 150-160%. I guess that is due to the quad core and top probably handling 2 cores fine, but getting confused with 4.
Anybody else see this? Does it need reporting?
What is the issue David? On a multi-CPU/core machine, what you're seeing is perfectly normal. Whilst in top, press '1' (one) to see utilization of the individual CPUs. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 27 July 2009 03:01:26 am Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Since processing video takes a while, I thought I would look at the load the server was under and started first with top. top showed 152%, then 157% then 160% and then bounced around between 150-160%. I guess that is due to the quad core and top probably handling 2 cores fine, but getting confused with 4.
Anybody else see this? Does it need reporting?
What is the issue David? On a multi-CPU/core machine, what you're seeing is perfectly normal. Whilst in top, press '1' (one) to see utilization of the individual CPUs.
/Per
+1 something new everyday -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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