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Glossary
Dispatched Time. The term used to represent both the
time a thread or task has been dispatched to run on a
processor but not yet actually using the processor (ready
to run but waiting for a processor) plus the time the thread
or task actually was running in the processor. There is no
actual metric that measures the separate time of
“dispatched to a processor but waiting to use it.” The book
discusses other Job Watcher metrics or graphics that
indicate that threads or tasks have been waiting for an
available processor, just not the length of time.
Thread. A separate and unique flow of control within a
job. A thread runs a procedure asynchronously to other
threads running within ...