What is wrong with the CPU utilization metric (video)

Posted on Tuesday, May 01 2018 @ 10:18 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

In his Lightning Talk from UpSCALE at the 2018 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Netflix senior performance architect Brendan Gregg takes a look at what's wrong with the CPU utilization rate metric and why you can't always rely on it to measure performance. Gregg explains %CPU is a misleading measure to check how busy your CPU really is:

H/T: HardOCP

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