On Apr 30, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
The dual Xeon processors come up as 2 physical and 8 logical.
I think your 9% CPU usage is misleading. It probably means you're using one out of eight processors for 72% of your eight minutes. Add in the iowait time (which should be similar to the time the copy took - 11% of your eight minutes) and you're not far off from explaining the whole time.
In top on Linux, you can hit 'I' to make the CPU percentages go up to 800% instead of 100%. Or '1' to show each processor individually.
You can make it go much faster by running more than one convert at a time. Each convert task is fully independent, so if this were 100% CPU usage, you could go almost eight times faster.
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