cpu

mysqladmin -s status FAILS to return anything when cpu is 100%?

So,we have a script which monitors mysql every 70 seconds. First it checks for the pidof mysql and then if it finds the pid, it runs mysqladmin -s status -p<password> Now recently we observed mysqld going to 100% cpu load. What I want to know is, will mysqladmin itself FAIL or stall or whatever when the cpu load is 100%? ...

Using Server CPU for Desktop Applications

Though Its a n00bish question I'vent found any clear answer anywhere even after long days of googling. Recently I am Planning to Use a AMD Opteron Quad Core 2350 for my Home Lab. I'll not run it as a Pro Server. rather I'll use it for Development Only. It will have the following things 2 Instances of Apache Server (I'll Need this) 1...

Java - High cpu usage

Hi I have a production web application running in Tomcat. The web application uses struts 2 as MVC layer. We had an issue wherein one of the web servers spiked to 100% cpu usage. This issue lasted for over several hours. I took the thread dump and saw over several hundred threads in runnable state and the dumps show the same stack tra...

CPU Usage of a Process(task) Linux Kernel

Hi, how can i learn cpu usage percentage of a process in kernel-space? We are trying to limit cpu usage of a process looking at a field added to task_struct. Forexample if the field is 10 and the process has already consumed the %10 percent of total timeslice we need to prevent the process from runnning. thanks ...