I have a question about scheduling threads. on the one hand, I learned that threads are scheduled and treated as processes in Linux, meaning they get scheduled like any other process using the conventional methods. (for example, the Completely Fair Scheduler in linux) On the other hand, I also know that the CPU might also switch between threads using methods
Tag: cpu
When using htop command, do red values in the time+ column mean there’s something wrong?
Below is my server htop display. The nginx process uses CPU time more then 18 hours, and is shown in red color, but CPU and memory all look OK. Is the value within the normal range? Answer I was curious about this too, so I dug into the source code and found this: So, it looks like whenever the CPU
Linux: How to put a load on system memory?
I’m working on a small function, that gives my users a picture of how occupied the CPU is. I’m using cat /proc/loadavg, which returns the well known 3 numbers. My problem is that the CPU doesn’t do anything, right now, while I’m developing. Is there a good way to generate some load on the CPU, I was thinking something like