CPU usage

Asked by Sebastian Urrutia-Quiroga

Hi all,
I'm running some simulations in a 16-core machine, but apparently I'm doing something wrong because the CPU usage indicates:

Linux 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 08/24/2018 _x86_64_ (16 CPU)

03:04:41 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
03:04:41 PM all 2.03 0.00 0.30 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.66

Is this normal? Otherwise, any idea about how to solve it?

Best,
Sebastian

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Sebastian Urrutia-Quiroga (sgurruti) said :
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I forgot to mention that I'm using the options run_mode=2 & nb_cores=16

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Olivier Mattelaer (olivier-mattelaer) said :
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Hi,

Not all part of the code are able to use more than one core.
And depending of the process that you run, we might not be able to saturate the 16 cores even if the code can use multi-core for that part of the code.

Cheers,

Olivier

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Sebastian Urrutia-Quiroga (sgurruti) said :
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Hi Olivier,
Thank you for your quick response. I'm generating the process p p > e- e- j j in a LNV model, so I don know if this calculation can saturate the 16 cores.

Here is a more detailed version of the CPU usage:
09:06:52 PM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
09:06:52 PM all 2.07 0.00 0.30 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.62
09:06:52 PM 0 1.91 0.00 0.04 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.03
09:06:52 PM 1 2.71 0.00 1.26 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 96.02
09:06:52 PM 2 3.94 0.00 0.34 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.70
09:06:52 PM 3 2.27 0.00 0.09 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.63
09:06:52 PM 4 1.36 0.00 0.09 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.53
09:06:52 PM 5 1.34 0.00 0.11 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.52
09:06:52 PM 6 1.47 0.00 0.07 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.44
09:06:52 PM 7 1.20 0.00 0.05 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.74
09:06:52 PM 8 2.13 0.00 0.11 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.75
09:06:52 PM 9 3.04 0.00 1.53 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 95.42
09:06:52 PM 10 2.20 0.00 0.39 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.40
09:06:52 PM 11 2.32 0.00 0.15 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.53
09:06:52 PM 12 1.85 0.00 0.15 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.99
09:06:52 PM 13 1.86 0.00 0.20 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 97.94
09:06:52 PM 14 1.74 0.00 0.13 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.12
09:06:52 PM 15 1.75 0.00 0.11 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.13

Thank you so much,
Sebastian

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