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Hi,
My new server has 2 x X5570 CPUs.
Now here is the output of grep -i hz /proc/cpuinfo
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
cpu MHz : 1600.231
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
cpu MHz : 1600.231
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU …
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Hello!
I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 under VMware ESXi 3.5. Host has 2 physical CPUs and the BSD box is currently the only running VM. Only one virtual CPU is assigned to the VM.
When measuring CPU time of a specific program, I get very different results from time to time. Processor usage is reported…
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According to http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html#scalar_notcurrent ssCpuUser, ssCpuSystem, ssCpuIdle, etc are deprecated in favor of the raw variants (ssCpuRawUser, etc).
The former values (which don't cover things like nice, wait, kernel, interrupt, etc) returned a percentage…
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I've noticed that there are sometimes (large) differences between the reported total CPU usage and a summation of the per-process CPU utilization given by apps like top and wmtop.
As an example: I recently ran a git filter-branch --index-filter on a fairly large repo, with the index-filter command…
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I have a Ubuntu 12.04 server which sometimes dies completely - no SSH, no ping, nothing until it is physically rebooted.
After the reboot, I see in syslog that the oom-killer killed, well, pretty much everything.
There's a lot of detailed memory usage information in them. How do I read these logs…
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<b>Phoronix:</b> "...we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against Kubuntu 9.10 x86_64."
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As a keen follower of storage performance I couldn't help but be drawn to this article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/14/lsi_million_iops/ this morning. I gave my 5 year old laptop a new lease of life with a SSD and in combination with the old drive made external managed…
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Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) and 7500 (Nehalem-EX) Performance Intel launched the Xeon 5600 series (Westmere-EP, 32nm) six-core processors on 16 March 2010 without any TPC benchmark results. In the performance world, no results almost always mean bad or not good results. Yet there is every reason…
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IBM just published a TPC-H SF 1000 result for their x3850 X5 , 4-way Xeon 7560 system featuring a special MAX5 memory expansion board to support 1.5TB memory. In Dec 2010, IBM also published a TPC-H SF1000 for their Power 780 system, 8-way, quad-core, (4 logical processors per physical core). In Feb…
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Intel officially announced the Xeon E5 2600 series processor based on Sandy Bridge-EP variant with upto 8 cores and 20MB LLC per socket. Only one TPC benchmark accompanied product launch, summary below. Processors Cores per Frequency Memory SQL Vendor TPC-E 2 x Xeon E5-2690 8 2.9GHz 512GB (16x32GB)…
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