[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 gome system monitor CPU usage

Tue Nov 11 06:51:41 UTC 2014
Leo Brandewie <lbrandewie at dslextreme.com>

Thanks.


On 11/10/2014 4:33 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-11-11, Leo Brandewie <lbrandewie at dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> Not sure if this is the right place to post this; if not, my apologies.
> You probably want the CentOS users list, which is at
> centos at lists.centos.org and
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos .
>
>
> --keith
>
>> I've been testing CentOS 7 and I've been having a problem with CPU usage.
>>
>> I first set up a VM with 4 procs (2.66 GHz Xeons), loaded the Gnome
>> desktop, and ran system monitor. I got ~50% CPU usage on all four procs,
>> doing absolutely nothing but running system monitor.
>>
>> I was suspicious of this result since it was in a VM. So I loaded 7 onto
>> a real server (a Dell PowerEdge 1800) and tested again. The 1800 has 2 x
>> 2.8GHz Xeons and system monitor maxed out both CPUs.
>>
>> I'm astounded. I have no way of knowing if the problem is also present
>> in RHEL 7. I can say it's not at all present in CentOS 6.5. I have a
>> fair amount of experience with that OS.
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