Re: [Ganglia-general] High SystemCPU usage, low UserCPU usage

2015-10-14 Thread Martin Knoblauch
Dear Khan, as Vladimir said, "System CPU" is spent in the kernel on I/O, Interrupts, memory management. Just out of curiosity: what Linux are you (is your customer) running, which kernel version and what is the uptime? I ask, because I recently was facing a similar issue on Servers running SLES1

Re: [Ganglia-general] High SystemCPU usage, low UserCPU usage

2015-10-13 Thread Vladimir Vuksan
System CPU is CPU time spent in kernel mode. Usually it indicates some type of an I/O issue whether it's lots of disk utilization, network utilization, network file systems hanging e.g. NFS. You would need to review other metrics. Vladimir 10/1

[Ganglia-general] High SystemCPU usage, low UserCPU usage

2015-10-13 Thread Kamran Khan
Hi All, This isn't a problem with Ganglia, but I was hoping I might get a little advice on what I am seeing. I have a customer who is running ls-dyna applications, and he is noticing something odd. He is noticing his jobs being bogged down and not running at their full capacity. He looked a