Re: your experiences to cpu-consumption on multi-cpu-hardware

From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:00:17 +1000
Message-ID: <3efc5cae$1$8262$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

"Richard Foote" <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:nSXKa.2205$p8.92134_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...

> However it you have a whole bunch of processes each wanting to use CPUs,
> well that's kinda why they're there and while nothing is unnecessarily
> waiting for the resource, which is the key point, you have an environment
> that can cope with the required demand.

Exactly. Queue length for a resource is the key indicator. Queue hovers slightly >0 ==> good use of resource. Queue >> 0 ==> bottleneck, tune consumer(s) or enhance resource. Goes for CPU, disk, memory, caches, etcetc.

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Received on Fri Jun 27 2003 - 10:00:17 CDT