Chapter 2. CPUs
Key resources to any computer system are the central processing units (CPUs). Many modern systems from Sun boast numerous CPUs or virtual CPUs (which may be cores or hardware threads). The CPUs are shared by applications on the system, according to a policy prescribed by the operating system and scheduler (see Chapter 3 in Solaris™ Internals).
If the system becomes CPU resource limited, then application or kernel threads have to wait on a queue to be scheduled on a processor, potentially degrading system performance. The time spent on these queues, the length of these queues and the utilization of the system processor are important metrics for quantifying CPU-related performance bottlenecks. In addition, we can directly measure ...
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