May 2008
Intermediate to advanced
64 pages
2h 59m
English
The Processor Queue Length can be used to identify if processor contention, or high cpu-utilization, is caused by the processor capacity being insufficient to handle the workloads assigned to it. The Processor Queue Length shows the number of threads that are delayed in the processor Ready Queue and are waiting to be scheduled for execution. The value listed is the last observed value at the time the measurement was taken.
On a machine with a single processor, observations where the queue length is greater than 5 is a warning sign that there is frequently more work available than the processor can handle readily. When this number is greater than 10, then it is an extremely strong indicator that the processor is ...
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