Hi,
With Deadline client 5.1 Beta 2 installed onto a Fedora 14 OS slave, the Deadline slave reports in its “Slave Specifications” window, in the “CPU” data field = 16 @ 800 MHz. This is incorrect as the server has 16 cores @ 2.4 GHz.
The CPU usage only moves 1-2% when the system monitor is at 100 CPU usage.
Cheers
C
Hi Carl,
We are currently grabbing the processor speed from /proc/cpuinfo. I’m guessing we’re not reading it in properly. Could you run the following command from a terminal and send us the results?
cat /proc/cpuinfoWe’ll take a look at how we’re calculating cpu usage as well.
Thanks!
Turns out we had a Fedora 14 VM kicking around, but I couldn’t reproduce either problem…
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4799.92
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 1
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 12
initial apicid : 12
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 2
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 2
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 8
initial apicid : 8
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.36
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 3
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 4
initial apicid : 4
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 4
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.34
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 5
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 13
initial apicid : 13
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.37
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 6
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 2
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 9
initial apicid : 9
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 7
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 1
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 5
initial apicid : 5
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 8
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 2
initial apicid : 2
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 9
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 14
initial apicid : 14
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.36
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 10
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 2
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 10
initial apicid : 10
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.36
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 11
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 2
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 6
initial apicid : 6
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.38
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 12
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 3
initial apicid : 3
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.34
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 13
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 3
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 15
initial apicid : 15
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.36
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 14
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 2
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 11
initial apicid : 11
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
processor : 15
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 16
model : 4
model name : Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor 8378
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 2400.000
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 4
core id : 3
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 7
initial apicid : 7
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save
bogomips : 4800.35
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate
Above is the info. I believe the issues lies around the CPUfreq governor types in Fedora 14… I will do a bit more testing over the next 24 hrs…
Thanks for that! This is the line that we look for:
cpu MHz : 2400.000We just have a regular expression that parses this out. I tested your output with our parsing code, and it came out with 2.4 GHz. I really have no idea where it’s getting 800 MHz from. 
This is just strange…
Hi Ryan,
Issue was fixed by changing the power mode of the cpu. Once set to performance it worked fine. The problem is due to the slave reading the min CPU frequency value at the previous power mode. eg .8GHz
The next problem is. How do we get the CPU usage working?
We get the cpu use by reading in the contents of /proc/stat twice, with a 100 millisecond delay between the two reads. We look at the “cpu” line, read in the values to get the total time, and read in the 4th value as the idle time.
Out of curiosity, what does the slave show for cpu usage when the machine is sitting idle (ie: not rendering)? If it’s sitting at a high number, maybe our logic is backwards (although it seems to work fine on our test machines).
Cheers,
This is basically what we’re doing:
colby.id.au/node/39
I guess you could try running this script on your machine to see if reports proper cpu usage.
So I added some debugging code to our formula that we adopted from the link above. It turns out an off-by-one issue was resulting in the idle time being pulled incorrectly. This will be fixed in beta 3, and should fix the problem for you.
Cheers,
Hi,
You have 94.7GB of RAM in your render node?! Is this a VM or are you the richest man in the world?! 
Mike
We were hoping to get beta 3 out this week, but it looks like it will have to wait for next week. The cpu % issue should be fixed in this release, so you’ll have to let us know if this problem persists after you upgrade.
Thanks!
Mike.
The render node isn’t a VM. I’m not the richest man in the world… The servers each came with 96gig of ram… I’m waiting for the day when I utilize 100% ram usage. LOL.
Ryan. .Look forward to the beta 3
Cheers
Just to report.
I’m using build 4 on FC12 and in the monitor it still shows 0% CPU usage, as well as Task Statistics panel wont show anything.
Cheers,
Wojtek
What do you see in the Slave UI? Is it always showing up as 0 there too?
The slave GUI has correct information.
That’s good at least. I should mention that the slave only updates it’s status in the Monitor every 20 to 40 seconds, so the value it shows there for cpu user can be out of date. Does it ever show anything other than 0%?
Hi Ryan,
I have just did a update to 457783 and all the slave information is working correctly.
C
Will update today to the latest build and report.
Cheers!
