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How to force a process to run on a particular cpu?
I know that taskset can be used to force a process to run on a particular cpu.
How can I force tomcat to run on a particular CPU?
I then want to run apache bench on a seperate CPU.
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Why do I need six cores in a cpu for a server? [closed]
I was getting specs for dell server and one cpu is an Intel Xeon with 6 cores, another 4 cores. What am I getting with this? Do I need six cores? What does that give me? I don't know what ...
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Tomcat performing terribly for no apparent reason
We're running a game application .WAR on Tomcat 6 on an Amazon EC2 server, 8 core processor, 7gb RAM. The application uses a MySQL database hosted on Amazon RDS.
This Facebook application takes ages ...
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Hyperthreading on multicore processors - is it of any use? [closed]
I know hyperthreading from the time long ago where the processors used to have only a single core. The technology was really usefull then. Right now, Intel is still offering hyperthreading with 6-core ...
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Performance implications of CPU/cores ratio
With the recent widespread adoption of multi-core CPUs, a question comes to mind: how does CPU/cores ratio relate to performance?
Which of these is better, how and why?
1 8-core CPU
2 4-core CPUs
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How can I move a process to a core or dedicate a process to a processor?
I have an Intel E5620 processor. I have used cat /proc/[pid]/stat to determine what processor the process was last run on (39th field). How can I ensure that a process is dedicated to a processor (I ...
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Setting up Apache to use multiple cores
Recently I have purchased a 6 core server which is running Ubuntu 10.04 and Apache. How do you set up apache to use all 6 cores and what is the best practice to do this?
Is it possible and if it is ...
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MySQL and Multi-Core processors
I'm running MySQL on win2008 server on a multi-core xeon processor.
It looks like it only uses a single core.
Is there something I need to configure to make it use all cores ?
The server is ...
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Q9650 vs. i7-870 for Server
One of our dedicated machines we use for hosting in London has exceeded the CPU usage, so I contacted the datacenter last week for a quote on an upgrade. We are hosting game servers, and most of these ...
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IIS 7.5 application pool CPU configuration
I have a web application that when runs on windows 2008 r2 data center edition and when the server is configured with a single core processor consumes 13 mb ram, when configured to run on dual core ...
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Java doesn't seem to utilize more than two cpus
In my current setup (debian squeeze x64, 6 cpus) neither java nor apache seem to utilitze the full potential of the server. The munin monitoring shows cpu usage never exceeds the 200% mark. We ran ...
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Free alternative to NI Real-Time Hypervisor?
Is there an free alternative to National Instruments' NI Real-Time Hypervisor? National Instruments provides both a Windows and Linux versions.
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How to find out if my debian server setup is a dual core or not?
I have access to root and would like to find out.
Thanks
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mpstat not showing all CPUs on CentOS 5.5 (64 bit)
I have two Quad Core XEON processors. When I run "mpstat" then it just shows combine figure of all CPUs like this:
12:16:44 AM CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %idle ...
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How to get Windows Server 2008 VM to use multiple cores
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine running in VirtualBox. On initial installation, only one processor was made available, but now I want to run it as a multiprocessor machine.
I have made all four ...
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rsync with multi-core server should go faster than it goes. Am I wrong?
I'm launching a rsync simple command between two servers. Both servers have two eth interfaces on bonding. When I send a big file from one server to the other with rsync I reach 130M/s transfer ...
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Many instances of sql express use all the same cpu?
Sql Server Express has the following major hardware limitations that has a consequence on performance:
1 CPU
1GB of memory
My question is: if on a multicore machine many instances of sql server ...
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need high performance /bin/sort; any suggestions?
Greetings,
I'm looking for a high performance /bin/sort drop in replacement. I know there is pbzip2 for using multiple cores, but is there a similar product for /bin/sort?
I've found distsort.sh, ...
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top in batch mode, need CPU% for every core
I know that after running top, I can press '1' and get a list of the CPUs with their utilization percentages. I suspect I can do this in batch mode too with the -b option, but I don't know how, and I ...
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Multicore license: ESX Vs Citrix Xenserver
VMware ESX is free for upto 6 cores per CPU only
Vsphere Advanced version is required for 12 CPU cores
does Xenserver 5.5 free support greater than 6 cores per CPU/Socket?
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SQL server availability issue: large query stops other connections from connecting
I've got a high-spec (multicore, RAID) server running MS SQL 2008, with several databases on it. I have a low throughput process that periodically needs a small amount of information from one of the ...
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Can Windows 2008 64bit make use of a 6 core cpu?
There's a version of AMD Phenom CPU which is 6 cores. Would Windows 2008 64 bit & SQL Server 2008 64 bit make use of all the cores? Any special settings of the OS or sql server needed to benefit ...
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Running a VM on a hyperthreaded CPU
Is it better to run a VM on a dual core hyperthreaded machine as a four core or as a two core VM.
The hyperthreaded 'virtual' cores are not as fast as the real cores. Does this effect the VM?
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Xen - Make one guest OS have 2 cpus?
I have inherited a Xen setup. The dom0 and domU's are all linux. dom0 has 8 cores (or CPUs, I'm not sure). We want to run more stuff on one domU. I want to make it a multicore CPU, ie so that the domU ...
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Why does my Windows 7 VM running under Linux' KVM not use all the virtual processors?
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I've had a problem on my server since I migrated one of my VM's from Windows 2008 Server to Windows 7 (ultimate): though I've assigned four cores to the VM and it even seems to see them, it seems ...
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More RAM or More Cores for a MySQL Database Server?
Here's the scenario, which I'd love your expert advice on:
I've got about 2GB of database currently, maybe double that in a year. I want the optimum server performance for the dedicated DB server I'm ...
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SQL Server 2005 preferring a single core per cpu?
HI folks,
I've a SQL Server 2005 system, with 4 cpus in it each with 4 cores. It's currently mainly utilising just 4 cores, ie 4 hover around 90% utilisation at peak and the others closer to 30%. I'm ...
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Two Xeon Processors with Different Clock Speeds on the Same Motherboard: Possible?
If I have a 2.0gHz Woodcrest 5130 Xeon and a 1.6gHz Woodcrest 5110 Xeon, can I put them both on the same motherboard?
The machine in question is a PowerEdge 2950.
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Hardware virtualization support for Core i7 + P55
I'm considering a hardware upgrade from AMD Opteron 1216 to a Core i7 920 or Core i7 860. I want to know if Hardware Virtualization (VT-X) is supported? I found the spec sheets online which say yes. ...
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Disable CPU cores in bios?
Is it possible to disable CPU (Intel) cores in BIOS, and if yes what HP/DELL (others?) 1U/2U servers would allow this?
It is becoming difficult to find new server hardware with dual core CPUs, most ...
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How to determine actual virtual CPU configuration of ESX image?
We have severe performance issues on an ESX client, but from where I am I cannot directly view the server configuration, yet I want to find out whether they set it up correctly.
Running CPU-Z shows ...
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Should a core be “reserved” for the OS in a multi-core (SMP) Linux system?
If I plan to run eight applications on an eight core machine and expect all applications to utilise 100% cpu, will the OS "get enough time" for its own tasks or should I instead run seven applications ...
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Util. to tell me how many cores are being used under Win 2003 Standard
Confusion reigns about licensing, with the No. of processors that can be engaged by various versions of 2003/ 2008 server. Now that we have 6 core AMDs and future 8 core Intels, I wonder if hardware ...
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Is Pentium D915 plug compatible with Core 2 Quad?
I have a system:
dual core pentium d 915 currently running at 2.8GHz
with 2GB DDR2.
I wish to upgrade it to be used as an application server.
I wish to upgrade the processor and ram to 4GB.
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Can I turn off a faulty core temporarily on my CPU?
I have the following CPU:
AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache
Series Phenom X4
Model HD960ZWCGDBOX
Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor
I'm getting BSODs and an event ...
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CPU Utilization of a multithreaded process
Background: I have a whole mess of systems running the 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 kernel in what started as a Fedora Core 2 install several years ago. These systems have 8 cpus, as reported by cat ...
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Can Windows be configured to only use a single hardware thread?
Is is possible to configure Windows to only use a single hardware-thread. Every machine for the last couple of years seems to be at least dual-core, but some timing bugs are only reproducible when ...
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low cost multi-core testbed system [closed]
I'm looking into research in multi-core processing and hardware to test it on. I would need at least 4 cores (but that's fairly minimal and I would prefer as many as I can get without upping the price ...
