Hi,
I am doing some domain resource monitoring work. I use
cat /dev/urandom | md5sum
to simulate vCPU load and write a script to calculate vCPU utilization. It seems all good at the beginning. After I abort the ``cat ... md5sum`` command in domain, I see some strange data as below:
CPU time: 8410960000000
CPU util: 99.8410609331%
CPU time: 8411970000000
CPU util: 100.843672381%
CPU time: 8412380000000
CPU util: 40.9336949531%
CPU time: 8412440000000
CPU util: 5.9899303915%
CPU time: 8412440000000
CPU util: 0.0%
CPU time: 8412490000000
CPU util: 4.99165856007%
CPU time: 8412490000000
CPU util: 0.0%
CPU time: 8412490000000
CPU util: 0.0%
CPU time: 8412570000000
CPU util: 7.987195515%
CPU time: 8412570000000
CPU util: 0.0%
CPU time: 8412590000000
CPU util: 1.99668576091%
CPU time: 8412670000000
CPU util: 7.98700539474%
CPU time: 8412720000000
CPU util: 4.99167281754%
CPU time: 8412780000000
CPU util: 5.98888552548%
Looking at those 0.0% lines. Strange, though the guest is running, cpuTime does not increase. How can this happen? Any one helps? Thanks.
Host information:
- CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)
- libvirt 1.2.8
- qemu-kvm-rhev 2.1.2
----- python script to capture cpu domain usage ----
import libvirt
import time
conn = libvirt.openReadOnly("qemu:///system")
dom = conn.lookupByName('cpu-test')
last_time = time.time()
while True:
time.sleep(1)
this_time = time.time()
print "CPU time: %s" % dom_info[4]
print "CPU util: %s%%" % ((dom_info[4] - last_cpu_time) / ((this_time - last_time) * 10000000))
last_cpu_time = dom_info[4]
last_time = this_time
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