Monitoring, anticipating, and reacting to server load is a full time job in some organizations. Unexpected spikes in resource usage can indicate a software or hardware problem. Gradual increases over ...

How do you tell how much load is on a CPU? On a desktop or laptop, the OS usually has some kind of gadget to display the basics. On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load ...

Hi all, I've got an EVGA Hadron rig with an NVIDIA GTX 780, Intel i7-4770K, and some RAM, SSDs, CCL on the CPU, etc. I'm running with the 500W Gold 80 PSU that comes default with the case. When stress ...

I'm working on a process that updates our database cluster using sqlloader. Because this cluster is in use by our product most of the time, I need to make sure that the sqlloader processes I spawn don ...

Part 1 of this series outlines the CPU time-allocation problem, some constraints, and a hands-free phone simulation model. Part 2 goes into hands-free phone simulation code development. Without using ...

Do you think your computer is running a little slow lately? Or there is some problem with the processing speed. You might want to take it to a service center to get it checked, but before doing that, ...