RE: Difference between CPU and core.
- From: Nisha Mohan <NishaMohan_A@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Karl Arao <karlarao@xxxxxxxxx>, "prsingh1@xxxxxxxxx" <prsingh1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:03:57 +0000
Hi,
Yes,the hyperthreading was turned off.
Enabled it and now both servers have same configuration.Thanks Karl :).
Thanks and Regards,
Nisha Mohan.A
From: Karl Arao [mailto:karlarao@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:35 AM
To: prsingh1@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Nisha Mohan; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Difference between CPU and core.
Most likely you are using this processor
http://ark.intel.com/products/53579/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-4870-30M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI
and you have the hyperthreading turned off on server #1..
CPUs
40
Cores
40
Sockets
4
the CPUs in AWR are the Logical CPUs (show parameter cpu_count) which the OS
also treats 1 thread as 1 cpu (cat /proc/cpuinfo)... but ultimately without
instance caging turned on the cpu_count parameter and the number of CPUs on
/proc/cpuinfo should be the same
On the workload level (AWR load profile).. a system let's say on the example
(photo)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-oL5_-FgDcjs/UM_yHxBiquI/AAAAAAAABxo/4GR4QFGDhn4/s2048/threadsVScores.png
1socket, 4cores, 8threads which shows as 8 Logical CPUs
(both CPU_COUNT and /proc/cpuinfo) can just do a max LIOs/sec of 1,400,000M and
even if you saturate past the number of Logical CPUs you would
only be on that rate.
To measure the response time effect as you saturate up to the max CPUs count
you have to measure the session level numbers.. so here
as you use more and more CPUs the lesser LIOs/elapsed you can do and once you
reach the max CPUs count you start to see some wait on run queue
which ultimately affects the session response times.
The four test cases shows the effects of having HT and TurboBoost on or off. In
my case when I turned off the HT it only left me with 4 CPUs
although I can still handle the same workload the response time effects
manifest on the CPU wait (run queue) once you get past the max CPUs count
.. that's why HTonTurboOn is the best case
And.. I would suggest you go to this tiddler http://goo.gl/iUJyn and open this
cool document by RedHat http://goo.gl/MKsml which clearly explains the HT
stuff.. (redhat kbase doc DOC-7715 - multi-processor, multi-core or supports
hyperthreading)
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