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MySQL Process Big

Ok, so I don't know if this is a repeat question so I'm sorry if it is (I couldn't find anything like it after searching =/) My server seems to be running what seems to me a larger than normal mysql ...
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How can I get combined CPU usage for all CPUs in one line on Linux? [closed]

I want to output the following: Average CPU utilization across all cores, over the last n seconds, in a single percentage value. So if I have 4 CPUs and their combined user and system utilization ...
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How to monitor CPU usage on a device running embedded Linux and BusyBox?

I recently began working with a device that uses embedded Linux and BusyBox. It is very stripped down, and does not have iostat or sar. It also doesn't have dpkg or apt for package management. The ...
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CPU Usage vs load average [duplicate]

I'm running debian iostat -x Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (server56856.uk2net.com) 27/04/13 _x86_64_ (4 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 4.59 0.01 ...
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How to find out CPU usage of DLLs within an instance of svchost.exe

My Windows Server 2008 R2 should be almost idle, yet it's taking about 12-15% CPU almost all the time. The busy process is an instance of svchost.exe Using SvcHost Process Analyser, I've established ...
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High Processor Usage

I have a Linode VPS and am getting alerts regarding high CPU usage every few days - a reboot solves the problem - but would rather find the issue. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and other than PHP, MySQL ...
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How to configure Apache so that I can get server resource stats per website / per script

How can Apache be configured so that it will be simple to get server resource stats (CPU, memory) per website (as defined by a separate sites-enabled entry) and / or by script (each .html or .php file ...
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How can sleeping processes in “top” be using a percentage of CPU?

When we run top we occasionally see a sleeping, "S", process which is using %CPU; I would expect all sleeping processes to use 0% CPU since they are not active. I would expect only running, "R", ...
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Understanding CPU Throttle

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-379.22.1.lve1.2.17.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=7cb0b445-0f63-4ef1-ab73-93c114d8ef6c rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto ...
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Apache high CPU usage, setting a overload limit

On a ubuntu server, I run a LAMP environment with APC, and fast-cgi as php mod, to host 2 wordpress sites, and both sites have Wordpress Total Cache (W3TC) plugin configured. The server's specs are: ...
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Why does a mysql query, that requires copying to tmp table, randomly sometimes consume 100% CPU during several seconds?

I have some crazy SQL queries in my PHP scripts which badly need some optimization. However the question is NOT about how to optimize them. These queries have a lot of "join"s and some bizarre "order ...
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When upgrading hardware to increase program performance, which should I consider first CPU, RAM or both? [duplicate]

I have a simple script that I wrote in PHP (which, after reading lots of QAs seems to have less than desirable memory management). It's an extremely small script that loops through configuration ...
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iexplorer.exe high CPU/RAM usage

My client has a virtual Server 2008 R2 terminal server running under ESXi 5.1. This server has, which been in production for around 4 months, experiences intermittent slowness / non-responsiveness ...
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Two CPU cores at 100% utilization after soft lockup on two CPUs, is this normal?

I had two of my CPUs lock up on one of my servers. From dmesg: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s! [vmx-vcpu-0:6148] and later: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [vmx-vcpu-0:6148] I'm ...
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CPU load steadily increasing and MySQL 1.5 GB open deleted file in temp directory

I have a CentOS server that is running cPanel (shared hosting server), I have had troubles with MySQL before and I spent some time configuring and tuning it, until finally the load dropped (from ...
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Pressflow 6 Mysql exhausting CPUs

I have an AWS EC2 m2.2xlarge instance running a myisam mysql DB for pressflow 6. The website is getting a little more than 8MM pageviews per month. Since a couple of months now, the CPU is being ...
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Windows Server 2008 task manager shows not more than 25% cpu usage for a process, how to increase this value?

Is this a feature or limitation compared to ordinary single user Windows 7/8? Is there a way to give one user access to say 50, 75% of overall cpu resources for running a software/process?
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Finding the file/script that invoked a process

I do have a high CPU utilization PhP Process. This process in turn seem to invoke mysql and both processes together are using all the CPU cores and RAM using ps aux | grep php , i could get the ...
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mongo and app server cpu

The beginning: We are using uwsgi and I decided to switch our configuration to use more workers/processes. Why: We have been seeing a traffic increase lately and in my tests with apache benchmark, ...
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Where is the high load coming from?

Last night I recieved a lot of messages from DirectAdmin saying: load average on your system is 46.86, or some similar number. It comes with a 'top' printout, but all I can tell from that printout is ...
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CentOS log high cpu usage [closed]

I have a CentOS server running on a VPS via Virtuozoo containers. I feel like there are high CPU usage spikes. Is there a way I can log every time CPU usage goes beyond a certain limit lets say 50%. ...
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wordpress on LAMP causes constant 100% CPU usage

i have a Linux V-Server with multiple domains at Hetzner in Germany. The Server is running CentOs6 with updates from a week ago and LAMPP. The most important site is my Wordpress blog. On Thursday ...
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Linux Load Averages and HyperThreads

My rough understanding of a Linux load Average is that for every integer a CPU core is working all the time. EX 1 means on a 4 core system that 1 core is working at capacity. How does HyperThreading ...
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Which Apache parameters responsible for high CPU usage and slower response?

Two dedicated separate servers running with identical configuration of hardware (Dual E5-2620 32GB) in similar environment (CentOS 6.3, Apache+PHP+MySQL) serving similar tasks, but behaving in ...
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High mysql throughput / cpu utilization

Once in a while, our server starts lagging. It always start around 6:00 ( GMT + 1) in the morning and ends around 3 till 4 hours later. We have munin installed and we see a peak in CPU utilization ...
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Why Are My High CPU Processes Located In /usr/bin/?

I keep getting RAM and CPU spikes but I can't figure out where it is coming from. If I look at the Process manager, I see, /usr/bin/php /home/hellohel/public_html/index.php Repeated several times. ...
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Does Apache2 run faster if I have more CPU?

I have a cloud server, with: 5120 RAM and 4.6Ghz My question is: if I add more CPU, (11.5 Ghz) will the load time of the pages be higher? I mean, is this always gradual? More CPU = faster pageload? ...
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How can I log the most CPU-Intensive processes in regular intervals?

I have a server which is idling below 5% cpu load most of the time, except from a few times a day where I can see some minor cpu spikes. I found out about this by using PRTG. How can I find out what ...
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cannot find high load cause

I cannot find high load cause. CPU usage is not high. Maybe disk is causing high i/o, but disk utilization is not that high too. The peaks around 4:30am is backup time and not that important.
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What is causing high cpu usage? [closed]

My host says that I'm using too much resource and I don't know what's causing it. It is running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit. It has 2GB RAM with 2GB SWAP. I run nginx as the webserver with php-fpm & ...
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Amazon EC2 - how to determine how busy each CPU is

I have an Amazon EC2 micro instance. I believe that this is 1 core (or 2 for periodic bursts) with 4 CPU's. I'm getting confused with the terminology (ECU vs CPU vs Core) but really I would like to ...
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ntvdm.exe is using a lot of CPU

One of my servers is a Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2. Usually there are up to 14 people logged in during all day. They use regular programs like Office 2010 or any internet browsers and a couple ...
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How do I decide what type of hardware to use for a firewall? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? What are the hardware performance requirements to set up a PFsense firewall on my gigabit Ethernet network? Is ...
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How to resolve high CPU + excessive stat(“/etc/localtime”) and clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) calls

I've been experiencing really high CPU on a ruby on rails app (see stack below) and have been trying to diagnose the possible causes to no avail. Stack: ruby 1.9.3 rails 3.2.6 Apache/2.2.21 ...
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System experiences weird CPU allocation while running intensive computations [closed]

While working on Windows 8 OS and doing some large calculation that should take 100% usage for some time. CPU has Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz. I can notice that I have spikes of CPU. Why are they there ...
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High CPU Usage in windows server 2003

In one of our production servers the CPU usage is 100% and thus some of the backup jobs failed. In windows server 2003 cms.exe shows : 50%, tomcat_3.exe : 25%, and tomcat_1.exe : 25%. Please help me ...
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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 ...
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Excessive CPU Utilization for Bind 9.8.1 `named` processes

I just noticed that named is eating vast amounts of CPU time for a very small network with only a few domains. Can someone help me determine what is misconfigured, please? Or how to debug this. top ...
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VMware Fusion Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server - Soft Lockup CPU Stuck

I have a strange Stuck Problem with VMware Fusion and Ubuntu 12.04 as Guest System. On High Loaded process the System stucks with "Soft Lockup CPU Stuck" and i have to reboot the VM...the Same System ...
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100% kernel load on FreeBSD 9

I'm having problems with a FreeBSD 9 server. One of the 8 cores (4 w/ HT) is constantly at 100% kernel load. top gives me: CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 12.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 87.5% idle ...
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Very uneven CPU utilization with SQL Server 2012 on 2 processor computer with 16 cores / processor

After installing SQL Server Enterprise 2012 with the Server + Cal license model, on a computer with 2 processors each with 16 cores (and no hyperthreading involved) and putting the server under ...
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Disabling CPU management

If I add the following processor.max_cstate=0 to the kernel command line for boot up, does that disable all CPU power management and throttling? I also found: ...
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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 ...
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Will more memory help my CPU-peaking SQL Server 2008 R2

I'm supporting a system running against a SQL Server 2008 R2. The server is a single-CPU box with 8 GB of memory. As traffic has increased, the server has started saturating, peaking to 100% CPU ever ...
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Apache2 return 404 for proxy requests before reaching WSGI

I have a Django app running under Apache2 and mod_wsgi and, unfortunately, lots of requests trying to use the server as a proxy. The server is responding OK with 404 errors but the errors are ...
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Load average relation to cpu threads and cpu cores

Is load average related to CPU ThreadS OR CPU core? i am having a xenon cpu with 8 cores and 16 threads. How much can be the acceptable load average? Sometimes Load AVerage reaches 11. so does ...
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CPU usage always below 10% in windows server 2008 r2 x64 [closed]

I am using a server with windows server 2008 r2 running on it to run my program. The CPU of the server is Intel xeon x5570 2.93GHz with 2 processors, 8 cores per processer. However, I found that the ...
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find the cpu usage of a process on Ubuntu?

Is there a way to find the CPU usage of a process on ubuntu combined with the cpu usage of all the child process. And also would it be possible to get this number as a % of the total CPU usage?
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Why does mpstat show different values when I use the interval setting?

Here's the output I get when I run mpstat: $mpstat Linux 3.2.0-30-generic (my-laptop-C650) 09/17/2012 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) 05:32:01 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft ...
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KVM causes high CPU loaded when cache='none'

I've followed instructions on http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tuning_KVM. Host is Debian Squeeze Kernel 3.2, QEMU 1.0, libvirt 0.9.12 (all from squeeze-backport). All 4 guests are Debian Squeeze Kernel ...

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