Questions tagged [central-processing-unit]
The central processing unit (CPU) is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer.
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Is there a way to view the manufacture date of a AMD EPYC-9754 CPU?
I bought a AMD EPYC-9754 CPU from a indiviual trader, since AMD don't sell EPYC in retail market.
I want to confirm that whether or not my CPU is a new one.
Is there a way(prefered in Linux), I can ...
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Are there single and dual socket version of AMD EPYC 9754?
I need to build a dual cpu system with AMD EPYC-9754, and need to buy two CPUs of this type.
As we know, there are two different version of 9654, i.e. 9654P and 9654, where the former for single ...
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Special requirements for CPUs on Exchange in VMware ESXi?
I just ran the Exchange Health Checker script for something unrelated to CPUs, and I noticed at the top of the output in Exchange Management Shell it says:
Virtual Machine detected. Certain settings ...
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KVM CPU Passthrough Frequencies
I am looking at a KVM server and client, and noticed something I don't really understand and I'm hoping someone can enlighten me/point me in the correct direction.
cat /proc/cpuinfo shows - among ...
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2 (almost) identical Supermicro systems different performance
2 almost identical Supermicro systems
X10DRU-i+
and identical CPUs
2x 2697A per system
. Whatsmore the OS is identical as they are imaged with the same OS image of Windows 2016 server standard.
The ...
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GCP Compute Engine CPU peaks every 10 min during disk load
I am experiencing CPU peaks during disk demanding tasks on the GCP Compute Engine every 10 minutes. I want to understand the reason why these peaks occur. My goal is to either eliminate these peaks or ...
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the value of cpufreq-info -w and cpufreq-info -f are very different
Environment:
# uname -r
5.15.0-91-generic
# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 52 bits physical, 57 bits virtual
Byte Order: ...
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How to get the CPU micro-architecture name on virtual machines running in the cloud?
I have some servers (VMs) running on Digital Ocean, and I'm looking to retrieve the name of the CPU architecture, I know it's Intel but I guess that the information is not easily available. Here is ...
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How do I increase Threads per core for an Ubuntu VM in VMware?
I recently purchased a VMware dedicated server and I created my first VPS on it with Ubuntu 22 server OS . Using lscpu in Ubuntu , I'm seeing the following :
steam@steam:/root$ lscpu
Architecture: ...
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AWS Graviton Processors: which encryption specs are hardware accelerated?
In testing Graviton instances there seems to be significantly more CPU overhead from AES/SHA functions compared to the same on cheaper/smaller Intel/AMD instances. Do these procs supports hardware ...
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CPU spikes on Ubuntu using RunCloud / AWS Lightsail
I am regularly getting alerts from my AWS Lightspeed server for high CPU usage.
The configuration is 2vpu, 4gb ram, 80gb ssd.
I use RunCloud for server management and have around 10 very low traffic ...
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Why should I choose Xeon or Epic when Ryzen are way faster? [closed]
I'm selecting 2 servers to run a world-facing web application for a customer. One will host the web server, the other the DB.
I can choose between Xeon and Ryzen CPUs and.. oh, my! Xeons are way more ...
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Dynamic CPU allocation/scaling in QEMU KVM
How can I dynamically allocate/scale CPU resources to my QEMU VM according to the workload of the VM? Would this require a script? Is it even possible to change CPU allocation at runtime?
I have a ...
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Copied/Imported Xen Server VM can't see all CPUs?
I have installed a new Xen Host Server with more cores. I attempted both a copy and import of the VM from the old Host. When I attempt to increase the CPUs, the option only shows me what was available ...
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Is there any tool or any way to get all processes which are queued in windows?
Is there any tool or any way to get all processes which are queued in windows? i have value of CPU Queue very high
i have few apps running on server. the CPU Queue continue to reach sometimes 3000, ...
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Bridge interface causes high CPU utilization
We are facing a weird issue with a server we have on our laboratory. Specifically, the server shows high CPU utilization from low priority processes (blue color in htop) with 50% of the cores ...
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How to get cpu hardware id on Android systems?
I need get CPU voltage and temperature from /sys/class/hwmon but need find the CPU ID to find the correct directory, by example:
$ ll /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon2/device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 sep 3 13:...
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CPU hardware: more cores means lower frequency at some point? [closed]
When taking a look at intel processor product list for servers, it seems like there is a correlation between the base frequency and the number of cores.
Take this list, there is no processor with base ...
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What is the AMD equivalent of Intel’s Node Manager
I’m looking to better understand server telemetry. On all platforms Intel currently provides more robust telemetry with a separate on-dye processor called node manager:
https://www.intel.com/content/...
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Installing Hyper-V on Windows Server 2022 reduces host system CPU to 1 core 1 thread
Bit of an odd situation, I've installed Windows Server 2022 (desktop experience) on a server, installed MegaStorage MSM and the relevant drivers from Supermicro and any Windows updates. When I install ...
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Run a docker container over 2 physical computers
It is possible with docker cli to limit the number of CPUs for running container (--cpus option)?
It it possible to change this limit when the container is running? Or should I delete the container ...
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CLI Tool for Machine Stats
Are there good CLI utilities to see things like CPU, RAM, and Network Traffic over time?
I know CPU can be looked at via a command like top but curious if there is any way to collect historical trends ...
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Can CPUs run with constant boosted speed?
My default AWS server CPU speed is 2.5GHz but somehow I did manage to boost it to 3.1GHz. However, when I run watch -n.1 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i mhz' they are not constantly working with 3.1GHz. ...
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Why are server CPUs so weak and expensive? [closed]
So looking at CPUs with good single core performance. One example would be AMD EPYC 73F3 which is (according to passmark) on par with Ryzen 5950X, but 10 times more expensive and it's rated over x2 ...
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MariaDB High CPU load after Crash
I have a problem with MariaDB 10.3.16. I was trying to convert a rather large table (26GB) from MyISAM to InnoDB and unfortunately the disk space ran out during this process. When it got full, it ...
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Uneven CPU usage with NGINX
On my CentOS 7 server, the load on each core is unequally distributed, as seen in the screenshot: some nginx worker seem to take way more load than other. irqbalanceis enabled, hyperthreading disabled....
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Does configuring BIOS really solve ESXi CPU Contention?
There's alert coming up on our server saying CPU Contention even if we already isolate that VMguest from another high CPU consuming VMguest:
Alert Definition Name: Virtual Machine on a host with BIOS ...
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VPS performance apparently low - how can I verify?
I apologize wholeheartedly but this is probably as unspecified as it can get as for a question.
I run a linux VPS and...I think it has an important performance problem, but I can't pin point what it ...
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How to calculate CPU utilization for an application in a multicore system
On 8-core server, 0-3 are configured as isolcpus and remaining cores (4-7) are available for system and user processes to run. My application has multiple processes which will run on any one of the ...
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How can I get my CPU to run at maximum speed by circumventing CPU scaling? [closed]
I am running CentOS 7 (7.9.2009) (kernel 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64) on a rather old laptop (Lenove T61) with a dual core CPU (Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz). The driver for CPU scaling ...
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Hardware errors in either CPU or RAM, what to do?
I have a server that, every now and then reports Hardware Errors to the OS, but otherwise runs without any noticeable issues.
Today I found this while walking by the monitor attached to it.
Can anyone ...
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How to calculate the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) bandwidth?
For Xeon E5-2697 v2, Intel lists:
Bus Speed = 8 GT/s
# of QPI Links = 2
According to Wikipedia, one must know the QPI frequency and link width to calculate the QPI bandwidth, but these don't seem to ...
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Why does server throw Q Code 19 only when both CPUs installed?
I've got two identical intel CPUs in an Asus board with one stick of ram each. On power up, board immediately throws code 19 ("SB initialize before installed memory"). I've tested each CPU ...
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what are the risks when mixing different DELL servers and how to know supported rhel versions
we are using the following DELL servers and this server is part of the cluster
SERVER - R730
we want to add new servers as R740 to our cluster ( R740 is with Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8c Processor)
so ...
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Websites getting down every day on VPS Server
I have a VPS server using 4 CPU and 4GB RAM shared across 10 PHP websites of which 2 website(website and set cron jobs) are using sometime more than 6 CPU core of 4 CPU core available. And because of ...
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high CPU usage of MySQL and recommendation from Mysqltunner
we have noticed that our database server is getting so high CPU (more than 90 % used by mysqld process), the output of mysqltunner is shown below, can you help me please,
i'm okay about the ...
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Setting CPU frequency to hardware minimum limit - will it harm the hardware?
I'm running on a Intel Celeron N4120. I can easily set the CPU governor for all 4 cores to powersave using:
for n in {0..3}
do
sudo cpufreq-set -g powersave -c $n
done
Now, using cpufreq-info I ...
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vCPU/pVCPU Calculation
I am trying to calculate the vCPU/pVCPU information in Dell PowerEdge MX740c using the Intel Xeon Gold 6148 Processor (SKU 6148) with Hyperthreading.
Does this seems correct?
pCPU Calculation
(# ...
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Can Intel Turbo Boost frequency for all cores be lower than the base frequency?
The Intel Xeon 6208U CPU is advertised to have a base frequency of 2.9 GHz and Turbo Boost frequency of 3.9 GHz - but that is for one core, which is not very useful (and IMO, highly misleading). I'm ...
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worker_processes value for Nginx/Openresty running on Kubernetes
Based on the documentation here, https://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#worker_processes
The worker_processes is defined as the number of worker processes.
The optimal value depends on many ...
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Why one of the cores is running full on (100%) during development? [closed]
I'm developing an app (Python) which uses face recognition and OpenCV libraries.
I can see even after the app finished processing one of the cores keeps running full on
for another 10 mins or so.
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KVM Ubuntu host - Ubuntu guest: high cpu playing youtube videos
Goal is to lower cpu load in an Ubuntu 20.04.2 vm when playing youtube videos.
OS is Ubuntu 20.04.2 for host and kvm guests.
Cpu is intel i7-3820qm @ 2.70ghz - ivy bridge - 4 cores - 8 threads.
Have ...
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Load average explanation for multi-core systems
I'm trying to understand the Load average in my Debian system. I've read some explanations of the displayed values and I came to understand that the number represents how "overloaded" my ...
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CPU frequency in KVM vps
Is it possible to display CPU max and min frequency in a KVM vps using Libvirt on server ?
It only shows CPU mhz in vps and not max and min mhz as seen on server in lscpu command output.
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Intel Skylake Gold 6154 CPU genuine or Engineering Sample? Intel Diagnostic tool passes but CPU-Z and HWInfo shows "ES"
I am testing a GPU Compute Server (ASUS ESC8000 G4) with 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6154 CPUs and I ran the newest version of the Intel Diagnostic Tool (IPDT, Version 4.1.4.36.W.MP) and the tool passes all ...
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matching second hand cpus for dual cpu system
I have a need to replace some CPUs in an HP DL360 server (g8 or g9 I believe). FWIW the new CPU will be V1 or V2 E5-26xx CPU's (most likely E5-2697v2 or similar - something that gives the maximum ...
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Dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 (current) vs AMD Ryzen 9 3900 (new box), for combined web/database server
Due to upgrading from Centos 7 to 8 (no in-place upgrade is supported) I need to get a new dedicated server. Naturally, having had the current one a few years, an upgrade would be nice.
The question ...
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Does high cpu load make apache reject incoming requests?
I am deploying a laravel app on a RHEL7.x server with apache as the underlyiing web server. Part of the functionality of the application is to accept http POST requests from other servers and save ...
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What is a software prefetcher (processor setting)?
Configuring the CPU(s) of a DELL Server (via iDrac) I have run accross the term software prefetcher.
I have an idea that prefetching is to "fetch" in advance data from the memory in to the ...
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Unable to get access IMPI / BIOS / Intel Xeon Gen2 compatibility issue?
I've bought new( not used ) SuperMicro MBD-X11DPI and
x2 - Intel Xeon Silver 4210R OEM
Micron [MTA72ASS8G72PSZ-2S6E1] 64Gb
Samsung [M393A8G40MB2-CTD] 64Gb
When I'm booting, 10 different ...
