[CentOS] CPU usage over estimated?

Thu Jun 4 13:58:28 UTC 2009
Didi <ribalba at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Theo Band <theo.band at greenpeak.com> wrote:
> I have a quad core CPU running Centos5.
>
> When I use top, I see that running processes use 245% instead of 100%.
> If I use gkrellm, I just see one core being used 100%.

Press 1 in top to see the per CPU info

>
> top:
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES SWAP  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 18037 thba      31  15  304m 242m  62m  44m R 245.3  4.1 148:58.72 ic
>
> Also in the log of some programs I see this strange factor:
>  CPU Seconds = 2632   Wall Clock Seconds = 1090
>
> There are all single threaded programs, so it's not that more cores are
> being used.
>
> [thba at fazant]$ uname -a
> Linux fazant 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 09:10:25 EDT 2009
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> [thba at fazant]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 26
> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         940  @ 2.93GHz
> stepping        : 4
> cpu MHz         : 1600.000
> cache size      : 8192 KB
> physical id     : 0
> siblings        : 4
> core id         : 0
> cpu cores       : 4
> apicid          : 0
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 11
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpimmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx
> rdtscp lm constant_tsc ida nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2
> cx16 xtpr popcnt lahf_lm
> bogomips        : 5871.54
> clflush size    : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management: [8]
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Theo
>
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