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by greenleafjacob 3433 days ago
Saturation and utilization are different things. For CPU time, utilization would be how many cycles were spent running user tasks over total cycles. Saturation would be how much time (cycles?) was spent in the run-queue. For disks, utilization could be IOPS, saturation is time spent in I/O wait or queue sizes. For network interface, utilization could be Gbps, saturation is total time spent waiting to write to sendq.