Ockingshay Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Generally my server runs very well and CPU utilisation is usually well under 10%. I have however noticed that when sickrage is copying a file across after processing, the CPU utilisation jumps up well into the 90s. This obviously causes other things to slow down, so i would like to try and figure out what would be best to improve the situation. I have an intel xeon E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz that is no slouch compared to what we use to run on NAS' and so i wouldn't expect this spike in what is suppose to be a "bread & butter" operation. I have used htop and dynamix webgui to compare processes and they vary wildly. What is the best method for really knowing what my server is doing at a particular time? It happens as well when transmission is running at full speed. I also read that you should have enough RAM to cover the file size but i have 8GB , which again seems a lot for a NAS. I'm also not sure if this is simply normal behaviour and i've just never noticed it before. Link to comment
Ockingshay Posted February 28, 2016 Author Share Posted February 28, 2016 blimey boys and girls, keep it down in here, i can barely hear myself think! In the interest of sharing knowledge, i negated this problem by using cpu pinning, as (sort of!) described in this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36257.0 By controlling what CPUs my unruly dockers used, i was able to stop them overrunning my system. The guide is a little out of date unless you read the entire thread, so to summarise, you will need to edit each/any docker, click the advanced slider and create an entry in the "extra parameters" field with: --cpuset-cpus= ...where after the = is the desired core you would like. you can use ranges i.e. 0-2 or specific cores i.e. 0,1. An example would be to use the 3rd core, noting that core 1 is actually 0 and not 1: --cpuset-cpus=2 good luck! PS To answer my original question "How To Achieve Accurate Utilisation Readings?" HTOP showed the true representation. Link to comment
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