Thursday, October 6, 2011

CPU utilization

Server administrators were taught to believe 90% CPU utilization is over utilized. The truth of the matter is that any server not running at 100% CPU utilization is wasting time executing idle threads. This is one of the reasons we virtualize. To contrast that statement a bit, some CPU headroom should exist for HA failover and N+1 configurations. Find a good balance.
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