Shawn, ----- Original Message ----- > On an otherwise completely idle system I've noticed the load to be > 1.0 to 1.5 range. Running "top" shows the culprit to be: qemu-kvm. > > Is this normal behavior? I would have expected the load to be pretty > light.
You have to remember, or at least as I understand it, that a load of 1 is full for a single CPU/core. Since you have 24, a full load would be 24. Linux gets even weirder with more cores. I have one system that has 64 cores... and it has a lot of threads/process running just to support those. Another thing that uses quite a bit of CPU is ksm. If you don't have a number of similar VMs then I don't think it is very helpful... and it seems to eat up quite a bit of CPU resources trying to be helpful. Ok, now the uber-CentOS geeks can tell me how stupid I am. Mmmm... go. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
