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[Xen-devel] Question on xenpm

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Question on xenpm
From: Carsten Schiers <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 11:09:23 +0200
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Dear all,

after having upgraded my server from AMD 4050e to X4 640, I now use cpufreq=xen 
and had
to adapt a munin script (monitoring tool) to display the residency in the 
different P-states.
This script uses /sys/device/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq to read out the 
information, whereas
I now use xenpm get-cpufreq-state.

Before I noticed that the CPU is in highest possible P-state (lowest 
frequences) nearly all 
of the time, and a minimal percentage in the lowest. Now I can see a 50/50 
distribution. 
Interesting enough, the xenpm get-cpuidle-state will show that the CPUs are at 
aprox. 90%
in C1 idle state.

Can there be a difference in how the two methods to collect the info are 
working? I mean 
something like xenpm will not count residency when in C1, but cpufreq driver 
will normaly
do?

BR,
Carsten.

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