Re:Processor Utilization Difference Between IBM AIX and Linu...
by DannyBee on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:45PM
(#10415197)
As true or not true as this may be, it's worth pointing out:
The users are highly likely to continue to measure things the
wrong way, and come up with the wrong answers, until you change the way you display numbers.
Regardless of the good or bad reasons[1], telling users to stop reading the numbers and comparing them never works in practice.
[1]they say: "PURR- and SPURR- based processor utilization were introduced. This helps better in the CAPEX planning and actual performance expectation in the SMT8 mode when compared to the single-threaded mode.". I'm not sure i would ever use these numbers directly for capex planning, but okay .....
The users are highly likely to continue to measure things the wrong way, and come up with the wrong answers, until you change the way you display numbers.
Regardless of the good or bad reasons[1], telling users to stop reading the numbers and comparing them never works in practice.
[1]they say: "PURR- and SPURR- based processor utilization were introduced. This helps better in the CAPEX planning and actual performance expectation in the SMT8 mode when compared to the single-threaded mode.". I'm not sure i would ever use these numbers directly for capex planning, but okay .....