Directadmin system information

[winger]

hi,

somebody using directadmin is seeing this answer type in system information:

Processor Name Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
Vendor ID GenuineIntel
Processor Speed (MHz) 58.629

I have a customer complaining that he saw 3000 (in processor speed) and he thinks that the server is with problems...

I notice him a little slower, but not so significant ( from 3000 to 58.629)

I have other VPS that shows:

Processor Name AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 848
Vendor ID AuthenticAMD
Processor Speed (MHz) 2194.907

anybody else using a Intel processor have this information?

[JPC-Masood]

In virtuozzo those MHz mean nothing as cpu is not physically divided among vps, it is shared.

[winger]

In virtuozzo those MHz mean nothing as cpu is not physically divided among vps, it is shared.

but why this value change??

[Vin DSL]

but why this value change??

Don't try to make sense out of nonsense, my friend!

Masood is a technician, not a teacher...

If he says it means nothing, it means nothing!

Why try to turn nothing into something?

[winger]

Don't try to make sense out of nonsense, my friend!

Masood is a technician, not a teacher...

If he says it means nothing, it means nothing!

Why try to turn nothing into something?

it´s not so easy, it could be if just I used the VPS.

I have some customers asking me the reason of that

the fact is that the value of 3000 was exhibited and up to now no explanation was given.

and now, the customer understanding is that only about 234mhz (4 x 58.69mhz) is for his use and wants to move out

it would not be professional of my part to answer for him:

in virtuozzo those MHz mean nothing

or

If he says it means nothing, it means nothing!

and... I am not asking any class just an explanation that helps me the to convince the customer, something that I don't think to be so strange.

[Gwaihir]

the customer understanding is that only about 234mhz (4 x 58.69mhz) is for his use and wants to move out.

Yes well.. it's a little more complicated (better actually) than that, but that may well be an accurate estimate of his guaranteed portion. Which part of "shared CPU" didn't he get when he moved in?

It indeed means nothing, as he's using the wrong tool. The tool assumes it's on a machine level operating system. It isn't, so throw it away.

[winger]

Yes well.. it's a little more complicated (better actually) than that, but that may well be an accurate estimate of his guaranteed portion. Which part of "shared CPU" didn't he get when he moved in?

It indeed means nothing, as he's using the wrong tool. The tool assumes it's on a machine level operating system. It isn't, so throw it away.

he knows that´s shared, he dont't understand why he was able to "see" all the power of the CPU (3000) and know just 58.69.

how do you understand that? it´s the guaranteed CPU? We was able to see all the cpu and now only de guaranteed?

[jason]

Not having a VPS account, I can only speculate here, but my guess is that the value DirectAdmin sees is dependant on how much of the physical CPU resources are being allotted to the VPS instance at that moment in time. Since the VPS can grab additional resources if no one else is using them, DirectAdmin probably thinks it has a faster CPU when the system is idle and a slower one when it is busy.

You'll have to explain to your client that he is not looking at the specs on the actual physical CPU of his server but rather the specs of an emulated "software cpu" that bridges his VPS instance to the machine's physical hardware. Since the VPS is burstable, it is likely that the size of the virtual CPU will fluctuate depending on the resources his instance is using and the resources available to him at any given time.

--Jason