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Message-ID: <20081113191241.GB14953@csews22.cse.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:12:43 +0000
From:	Rahul Pydimukkala <prahul@....iitk.ac.in>
To:	kyle <kylewong@...tha.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: apache threads not balanced over all CPU cores, schedular problem or apache?

Few of the cores are always left idle by default for power saving reasons.
There has been a discussion over it sometime back. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/25/326 

That helps you play around with the load-balancer.

  

-
Rahul



On 19:46 Thu 13 Nov     , kyle wrote:
> From: "Rahul Pydimukkala" <prahul@....iitk.ac.in>
> To: "kyle" <kylewong@...tha.com>
> Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: apache threads not balanced over all CPU cores, schedular 
> problem or apache?
> 
> 
> >On 12:58 Thu 13 Nov     , kyle wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Please cc me if possible.
> >>
> >>I have a machine with Intel Q9300 4-core CPU, 8GB RAM. It runs apache 
> >>2.0.63
> >>with traditional prefork MPM.
> >
> >Yes, this is quite undesirable given that the kernel has a good 
> >load-balancer.  Can you give more information regarding the kernel version 
> >and load stats of individual apache processes as well?
> >-
> >Rahul
> >
> 
> They now all load on cpu1 and cpu2.
> 
> top - 19:35:42 up 8 days, 22:36,  8 users,  load average: 1.77, 1.63, 1.75
> Tasks: 251 total,   2 running, 249 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
> 0.0%st
> Cpu1  : 14.1%us,  4.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 52.9%id, 27.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.5%si, 
> 0.0%st
> Cpu2  :  4.3%us,  2.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 92.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si, 
> 0.0%st
> Cpu3  :  0.5%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  1.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   8117172k total,  8029032k used,    88140k free,   373356k buffers
> Swap:   208824k total,     8576k used,   200248k free,  5884936k cached
> 
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
> 15112 nobody    20   0  199m  10m 7344 S  2.5  0.1   0:00.94 2 httpd
> 14488 nobody    20   0  208m  17m 8400 S  2.0  0.2   0:02.06 1 httpd
> 15184 nobody    20   0  203m  12m 7652 S  2.0  0.2   0:00.69 1 httpd
> 15320 nobody    20   0  199m 9736 6556 S  2.0  0.1   0:00.29 2 httpd
> 15466 nobody    20   0  201m 9424 4684 S  2.0  0.1   0:00.05 2 httpd
> 15204 nobody    20   0  201m  10m 7380 S  1.5  0.1   0:00.66 2 httpd
> 15051 nobody    20   0  203m  12m 7716 S  1.0  0.2   0:01.43 2 httpd
> 15059 nobody    20   0  204m  13m 9232 S  1.0  0.2   0:01.22 2 httpd
> 15081 nobody    20   0  203m  12m 7724 S  1.0  0.2   0:00.95 2 httpd
> 15319 nobody    20   0  202m  12m 6376 S  1.0  0.2   0:00.26 1 httpd
> 15465 nobody    20   0  199m 8448 5396 S  1.0  0.1   0:00.05 2 httpd
> 15467 nobody    20   0  200m 8872 4568 S  1.0  0.1   0:00.02 2 httpd
> 12215 nobody    20   0  202m  13m 9756 S  0.5  0.2   0:05.54 2 httpd
> 13052 nobody    20   0  205m  14m 9.8m S  0.5  0.2   0:04.36 2 httpd
> 13433 nobody    20   0  203m  14m 9564 S  0.5  0.2   0:05.25 1 httpd 
> 
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