Re: [Xen-users] CPU Usage

Jonathan Tripathy
Sun, 29 May 2011 10:32:50 -0000

On 29/05/2011 11:31, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> On 05/29/11 11:33, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>>
>>> > Also, I upgraded on of my Windows VMs to 2 vCPU, however
windows
>>> still
>>>
>>> > reports just 1. Is this because I need to install the GPLPV
drivers?
>>>
>>>
>>> If it''s Windows 7:
>>>
>>>
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/howto-get-windows-7-to-detect-your-new-multi-core/71519d51-f6cb-47df-b3ff-66c2928d6de4
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> otherwise I would check ACPI settings.
>>>
>>>
>> It''s Windows server 2003 32-bit. I haven''t installed
any GPLPV drivers
>> (Should I?)
>>
>> I checked in device manager on the DomU and it indeed shows the 2 CPU
>> cores:
>> "Intel Xeon CPU"
>> "Intel Xeon CPU"
>>
>> (I''ve ommited the model and speed just to keep it simple)
>>
>> However the task manager only shows one graph
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> If you disable "One graph per CPU" in the view options, you only
see
> one graph, even with two cores.
>
> B.
>
Can you tell I''m a Linux guy?? :)

Thanks Bart for your help

BTW, does GPLPV increase disk performance by much?

Thanks