Vineeth Mekkat wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to measure bus utilization of some benchmarks on Itanium 
> Montecito machine. I followed the procedure in 
> http://www.ice.gelato.org/oct06/pres_pdf/gelato_ICE06oct_perfmon2_eranian_hp.pdf
>  
> and measured the bus utilization. Now, I am not sure at what percentage 
> of value is the bus saturated? Is it 100%?

What sort of system are you measuring?  A single-bus system, or a "cell-based" 
system?

> Say, if my bus utilization is 75%, can I say the bus is saturated?
> 
> I will be grateful if someone can shed some light on this.

I'm not sure how much light I will shed, but when it comes to memory busses, 
I've never been comfortable much past 80%.

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