Re: sys cpu usage

[Marek Podmaka <marki@marki-online.net>]

Hello,

Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 17:18:01, Michael Loftis wrote:
> their primary filesystem is on NFS, the NICs do UDP/TCP checksum
> offloading, and they mostly push large packets I see up to about 15%
> or so on dual core 2Ghz processors (Xeon 5130s not hyperthreaded, so
> four CPUs). But that's peak, average is more like 7-8% at around 70
> hits/second, and we've a pretty high overhead too. So 25%+ sounds

How is TCP checksum offload affecting the SYS usage? It is the chip on
network card which is doing the stuff and not kernel, right? Or does
it show in the sys cpu usage? (On this server, only checksumming
offload is supported.)


Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 17:48:35, blorb wrote:
> well, if it's within the mysql, try mytop but if it's something
> within the apahce or php i'm not sure myself...
> but try logging while working

Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 17:52:00, Joel Merrick wrote:
> Take a look at apache-top
> You need the server-status page enabled and it has to be apache 2.
> Also the mysql slow query log can be useful

Thanks for the tips, but I'm already using all this (mytop, slow log
and apache's status page) for performance tuning, but that wouldn't
help in case I need to track the system cpu usage.


Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 18:51:43, Marcin Sochacki wrote:
> oprofile is a Linux tool for kernel profiling.
> Regarding the original issue with high load, it's worth noting that USER
> CPU usage is also very high and corresponding to the SYS usage. I think
> that simply the web application you're using is not optimised enough, or you
> just have a lot of traffic.

Oh yes, I was playing with oprofile some time ago, so I will try it.

The total CPU load is high now and mysql will be migrated to new
server next month. I just published the graph so that someone will be
able to tell if the SYS usage is too high compared to USER or not. And
yes, there's lot of traffic - about 40 hits/s for apache/php and another
100-120 hits/s for images using lighttpd (but 95% of them are served
from mem-cache.


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  bYE, Marki