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by obogobo 166 days ago
What metrics does saturating memory bandwidth manifest as? ...iowait? 100% system CPU? How does one isolate memory as the bottleneck specifically?
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In process monitoring you just see 100% "cpu" use with the processor cores running in their low-medium frequency range and no real thermal issues (fans aren't spinning up). You can use perf indicators to specifically look at whether memory bandwidth is the issue.