22IBM iDoctor for iSeries Job Watcher: Advanced Performance Tool
2.1 Simplified view of running and waiting
One of the main purposes of the iDoctor for iSeries Job Watcher tool is to, in near real time,
quantify the amount of
wall clock time a thread or task spends running and the amount of
time it spends waiting. This first section introduces the concepts of running and waiting in a
rather simplistic environment. The real world complexities of iSeries processor sharing, LPAR
considerations, and so forth, will come later in our wait bucket descriptions.
All units of work in a system at any instant in time are in one of three states:
1.On a CPU ...
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