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interesting could be linux cpu utilisation = 1 minus whatever percentage was %idle so if %steal was high = cpu %idle would be low and thus cpu utilisation reported as high

should be able to look back at past cpu utilisation stats via sar command

for today or use -f flag to back back in time to see how cpu utilisation changed since migrating to Xeon Gold 6148

Code (Text):

sar -u

 

If it's anything like my Xeon Gold 6140 benchmarks at DigitalOcean - Benchmarks - DigitalOcean US$15/month droplet benchmarks - Intel Xeon E5-2630Lv2 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140 but with better disk I/O, then you've nabbed yourself an awesome cpu