How do you tell how much load is on a CPU? On a desktop or laptop, the OS usually has some kind of gadget to display the basics. On a microcontroller, though, you’ll have to roll your own CPU load ...

Monitoring, anticipating, and reacting to server load is a full time job in some organizations. Unexpected spikes in resource usage can indicate a software or hardware problem. Gradual increases over ...

Your CPU is half-asleep even during the most heavy workloads — here's how to wake it up.

I have a Proxmox host with an i5 6600T CPU (4C4T part with base clock of 2.7GHz, and max Turbo of 3.5GHz). Proxmox install is PVE8, with a couple of VMs and another couple of CTs. Performance is ...

Your CPU can do a lot more than what Windows allows it to by default.

If you ever develop an embedded system in a corporate environment, someone will probably tell you that you can only use 80% of the CPU or some other made-up number. The theory is that you will need ...

Stress testing your CPU is a great way to ensure that your overclock is stable, check that your cooling is powerful enough, or run in some new heat paste that you've applied to your processor. But ...