Will an IO blocked process show 100% CPU utilization in 'top' output?
- by Alex Stoddard
I have an analysis that can be parallelized over a different number of processes. It is expected that things will be both IO and CPU intensive (very high throughput short-read DNA alignment if anyone is curious.)
The system running this is a 48 core linux server.
The question is how to determine the optimum number of processes such that total…