CPU overhead measures the amount of work a computer's central processing unit can perform and the percentage of that capacity that's used by individual computing tasks. Some of these tasks involve ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. DirectStorage's IO performance gains will help PC game developers utilize more CPU power in their games. Microsoft's new DirectStorage API could help ...

The Linux mitigation for Meltdown known as kernel page table isolation (KPTI) can cause a massive drain on CPU performance, according to an analysis by Brendan Gregg, a senior performance architect at ...

The demand for higher-speed server interconnects to support clustering, storage networks and bulk data movement continues to drive Ethernet’s evolution. In transitioning from 1G to 10G bit/sec data ...

Microsoft’s DirectStorage technology will apparently do more than just make your games load quicker — it will also free up a lot of CPU power. According to a video from Microsoft, using DirectStorage ...

DirectX 12 promised smoother gaming on Windows 11. Five years in, shader stutter and CPU bottlenecks still define the ...

So we have production ESX 3.5 machine and a developers ESX 3.5 machine. Each is connected via FC to a IBM DS4300 SAN. We have to replace the SAN and are looking at iscsi as an option. Clearly iscsi ...

The Intel Arc B580 is considered the cheapest modern GPU on the market today, with Tom’s Hardware considering it the $249 GPU champion. However, several reviewers discovered that the budget GPU ...

I'm experimenting with moving my Outlook data files to a flash card on my laptop's built in flash reader. It's working pretty well except I noticed that now my kernel activity in the task manager ...