command piped into bzip not using all available CPU

[Jim C. Nasby]

Why would I expect to see it only use one CPU? It was CPU bound, not
disk bound. There were two CPU-intensive processes running, why wouldn't
they each use a different CPU?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:08:32AM -0700, Aaron Seelye wrote:
> I'm not sure the exact technical reason, but as I understand that, it's
> 47% idle on the total cpu power of the machine, which would indicate
> that one cpu was 100% full, and the other was 3%, due to system usage,
> i/o, or whatever else was running.  This is quite normal in my
> experience, and what you should expect to see.
> 
> -Aaron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim at nasby.net>
> To: "Aaron Seelye" <aseelye-lists at eltopia.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-performance at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: command piped into bzip not using all available CPU
> 
> 
> Perhapse I didn't make it clear, but this is on a dual CPU machine. I
> would expect that either bzip2 or pgsql would hit 100% CPU, using one
> entire CPU. The 47% idle indicates to me that it's not.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:48:19PM -0700, Aaron Seelye wrote:
> > I would venture a guess that bzip is not multi threaded and therefore
> > isn't spreading the load around.
> >
> > -Aaron Seelye
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jim at nasby.net>
> > To: <freebsd-performance at freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:05 PM
> > Subject: command piped into bzip not using all available CPU
> >
> >
> > As you can see below, a command piped into bzip2 is only effectively
> > using one CPU. It's not disk bound, both systat and gstat report less
> > than 10% disk utilization. Why is this?
> >
> > The command I'm running is:
> > pg_dump -vZ0 ogr | bzip2 > ogr-20040416.sql.bz2
> >
> > last pid: 18345;  load averages:  1.17,  1.09,  0.81  up 8+22:12:27
> > 17:00:56
> > 66 processes:  2 running, 64 sleeping
> > CPU states: 49.4% user,  0.0% nice,  3.7% system,  0.2% interrupt,
> 46.7%
> > idle
> > Mem: 67M Active, 2935M Inact, 359M Wired, 331M Cache, 255M Buf, 5576K
> > Free
> > Swap: 8192M Total, 64M Used, 8127M Free, 48K Out
> >
> >   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU
> > COMMAND
> > 17334 decibel  109    0 10856K  7164K CPU0   0  11:05 65.77% 65.77%
> > bzip2
> > 17335 pgsql      4    0   154M   124M sbwait 0   5:54 34.03% 34.03%
> > postgres
> > 17333 decibel   -8    0 20128K  3236K pipdwt 0   0:46  2.88%  2.88%
> > pg_dump
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> > Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant                  jim at nasby.net
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> Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant                  jim at nasby.net
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant                  jim at nasby.net
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