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 ...

Better performance doesn't always mean newer hardware.

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 ...

If you ever develop an embedded system in a corporate environment, someone will probably tell you that you can only use 80% of the CPU or some other made-up number. The theory is that you will need ...

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, ...