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Re: Beta test teams: Has base processor utilization decreased?

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Originally Posted by splatter View Post
Last year our team had slow response times, dropped packets and a cpu that was bouncing from 90% - 100% all the time.
This "100% CPU" metric, unless defined carefully, is ambiguous.

Every embedded project I've ever worked on had 100% CPU usage, but met all its hard real time deadlines. Huh? Yes, because all the leftover processing time was used for doing background (lowest priority) health monitoring.

A more meaningful metric would be throughput margin for your critical realtime tasks.