Lesson 3 of 12 · Linux performance
CPU: load, steal time, cgroup throttling and profiling with perf
Objective
Go beyond top: find out whether the processor really is the problem, or whether it is the hypervisor, a cgroup that is too tight or blocked tasks inflating the load, then find the function that consumes CPU with perf.
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