RE: [Xen-devel] CPU Utilization

Dave Thompson \(davetho\)
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:19:45 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Liguori [mailto:aliguori@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 5:01 PM
> To: Dave Thompson (davetho)
> Cc: Rob Gardner; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] CPU Utilization
>
> top isn''t smart enough to realize that for a portion of the
running
> time, a domain has been pre-empted out and is not running.
>
> top will then charge whatever was running at pre-emption time for the
> time that other domain running.

But what else is running?  In this case I only have dom0 configured,
there is no domU.  The only other possibility would be the hypervisor
and I hope the hypervisor is not accounting for the other 30%.

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori