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Regular CPU overload on videocalls

I have this reoccurring problem in a variety of videocall platforms. When I'm in a call the CPU usage repeatedly goes up to 100% for around 1 or 2 minutes. During these episodes, the whole system is ...
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How to measure actual CPU utilization in Linux for multi core applications?

I have a computation intensive process that I need to run multiple times on a multi-core processor but "top" isn't showing utilization or load in a useful way. For example, imagine my task ...
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CPU affinity not following cpuset

When I run taskset -p <pid> of a process I am getting something like this back: # taskset -p 1078 pid 1078's current affinity mask: 3f And it keeps changing what it reports, sometimes it's 5f, ...
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Kernel APIs to disable/enable CPU cores within a driver module

I have a linux kernel version 6.8.0-57-generic (Ubuntu Jammy). I want try disabling and enabling the cores in the CPU through the linux kernel module (from kernel space) What is the right way to do ...
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ARM64 commands take seconds to finish

I'm on an ARM board running Linux. The hardware is a vehicle domain control board which has 6 core ARM Cortex-A78AE and some machine learning cores. I don't want to reboot it because It might be a ...
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What exactly does %wait in pidstat mean?

Environment Ubuntu22.04 sysstat version 12.2.0 Number of logical CPUs 16 man pidstat shows the following, but I would like to know more specifically about the denominator and numerator of %wait. ...
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Linux kernel cgroup v2 CFS - cpu throttled_usec accounting?

In Linux kernel cgroup v2’s CFS scheduler, how is cpu.stat throttled_usec accounted when a cgroup with multiple threads gets throttled during a single quota period? Specifically, is throttled_usec ...
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Process called lsof using too much CPU

I keep having lsof -w -l +d /var/lib/php5 eating up my CPU I want to know who is triggering it and what does it have with php5 ...
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What is the meaning of columns in the table displayed by cpupower-monitor?

Running sudo cpupower monitor on Ubuntu 24.04 I'm getting: | Nehalem || Mperf || RAPL || Idle_Stats CPU| C3 | C6 | PC3 | PC6 || C0 | Cx | ...
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100% CPU on 4 of 8 cores on Oracle Linux

I have a desktop computer (Intel i4770) running Oracle Linux 7.9 with kernel 4.1.12-61. I usually keep it off and only turn it on on the rare occasions when I need to test something. A month or so ...
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Why is the Linux CPU stalling when having multithreaded memory writes?

HW Specs: CPU: 64 Cores, 128 Threads, AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX RAM: 512 GB, Manufacturer unknown, will try to provide if needed Linux Specs: OS: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Linux Kernel: 5.15.0-...
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Btop - What is the LAV value mean?

I have a KVM guest and inside it I am running vnc server. I have a ssh tunnel that I connect to it using tigervnc viewer. Everything works good for it except one issue. Using Chrome (using X server), ...
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(Solaris) Ram CPU monitoring script is grabbing incorrect cpu ram utilization values

host=$(hostname) email="[email protected]" # Change to your desired email subject="Attention!!! Health check Failed on $host" echo $(date) # CPU use threshold cpu_threshold=0 # ...
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KDE lockscreen (kscreenlocker_greet) high CPU usage

After KDE plasma 6 update, my CPU usage increased significantly while on lockscreen. This caused the processor to reach high temperatures and lose electricity unnecessarily. Main processes that caused ...
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High CPU usage by process with obfuscated name on Linux server – Potential attack?

We have been experiencing high load issues on our Linux server recently. Upon checking with the top command, we noticed an unknown process with a garbled command name (as shown in following images; ...

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