Re: Re: gulpng CPU with precision

If you've seen the tool he's talking about, you'd know what he means.

I agre it's 100% at any given instant, but averaged over chosen time segment (e.g. 1 second) a mix of tasks will be running a certain percentage of the time. If they don't add up to 100%, you need a faster disk drive. If they do add up to 100%, you need a faster CPU.

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Re: Re: Re: gulpng CPU with precision by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 14, 2001 at 10:45 UTC
Fair enough, I haven't used that PM tool nor am I a windows expert. I've just seen too many people confuse the CPU issue, and wanted to clear it up a bit. -Blake	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: gulpng CPU with precision by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 14, 2001 at 12:11 UTC
Fair enough. I suppose the nomenclature used by PerfMon and other tools is unclear if you don't really know what's going on. Implicit in the "load" is a time interval integration. The concept of a percentage breaks down to simply 100/0 values when the scale approaches the frequency at which it alternates between CPU-bound and IO-bound, or the "quantum" slice at which it time-slices.	[reply]