September 23, 201510 yr What should my CPU utilization be? I'm copying some files and my CPU (according to the dash board is 90-100%) SHould it be that high top - 10:33:09 up 1:29, 1 user, load average: 1.87, 1.56, 0.79 Tasks: 119 total, 2 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 48.8%us, 34.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 11.1%id, 2.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 3.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2052560k total, 1965952k used, 86608k free, 101620k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1565172k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2684 jbuszkie 20 0 294m 27m 17m R 25.9 1.4 1:28.24 smbd 11455 nobody 20 0 289m 19m 17m S 18.9 1.0 1:16.68 smbd 1660 root 20 0 290m 11m 668 S 9.3 0.6 0:46.48 shfs 1432 root 20 0 89100 3552 3008 S 1.0 0.2 0:12.93 emhttp The dash board says the core is running at 1800MHz After the copy finished, The CPU is still about 60%? I just upgraded to V6 from V5.05 and I'm wondering if this is normal? I can't remember what my old CPU utilization was... How can I tell how many cores I have and what model of CPU? I honestly can remember! :-) Thanks, Jim
September 23, 201510 yr Author More info... I found the CPU info it's Intel Celeron 430 Conroe-L Single-Core 1.8 GHz LGA 775 35W BX80557430 Processor So it is only Single core. I think I bought it because it was low power... But now maybe it's too old? Does it not have enough juice now? I bought it back in July of 2009!!! I thought it was only 2 years old... but I guess it's much older.. New Question..... If I get a new MB/CPU.. Will my power consumption be less (taking the drives out of the equation)?? With all the throttling? Thanks, Jim
September 23, 201510 yr The Celeron 430 is a very low end chip so your CPU utilization stats aren't too surprising. On the otherhand, I'm assuming you bought it for basic file server duties and provided it's enough CPU for those duties, then maybe it's Ok that it's working hard performing them... It all depends on what you want to do with your server. The Celeron 430 wasn't known as a particularly power efficient chip of that generation, though. I suspect that a modern Haswell processor would be both more powerful and more efficient. There are limits to the efficiency gains, though - that low end 430 just can't burn that much power . If you want to get into Dockers, it's time for an upgrade.
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