Erik Stephens writes:
Does anyone know what kinds of operations fall under 'system'? Task
switching, paging, these kinds of things?
The computer can execute instruction being part of the operating
system (usually priviledged code) or of user processes.
The first would be accounted for as
Hello all,
I apologize if this might be more appropriate for a Linux list. From
our time-series graphs, we are noticing that the percentage of CPU
cycles spent on 'system' tasks grows considerably under heavy load.
Does anyone know what kinds of operations fall under 'system'? Task
switching,