Rules of Thumb

• Commonly held theorems about levels of acceptable usage.

  • CPU - total busy above 85 % is not good
  • CPU Queue Length of 5 is going to begin to show poor performance, 15 and above is very bad.
  • Memory - buffer cache read hit rate and write hit of less than 90 % is not good.

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