Sysadmin Netflix Brendan Gregg says %CPU Utilisation Is Wrong

eva2000 · 2018-05-29

Brendan Gregg at Netflix Lightning talk at 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is interesting - CPU utilization is wrong CPU utilization is the metric everyone uses to measure a processor's performance. But %CPU is a misleading measure...

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Brendan Gregg at Netflix Lightning talk at 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is interesting - CPU utilization is wrong

CPU utilization is the metric everyone uses to measure a processor's performance. But %CPU is a misleading measure of how busy your processor really is, says Brendan Gregg, senior performance architect at Netflix, in what he calls a "five-minute public service announcement,"

In his Lightning Talk, "CPU Utilization is Wrong," Brendan explains what CPU utilization means—and doesn't mean—about performance and shares the open source tools he uses to identify reasons for bottlenecks and tune Netflix's systems. He also includes a mysterious case study that's relevant to everyone in 2018.
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And a bit of a spoiler as to why %CPU is wrong now

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html

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