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How does CPU scheduling work?

Posted on July 2, 2012


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How about if all Droplets on a physical node are using a lot of CPU? Is there a minimum guaranteed amount of CPU that my droplet will receive? e.g. assume 4 droplets on a quad-core 1 CPU machine. Will each droplet get at least 1/4, that is, 1 full physical core at a minimum?

Each Droplet has a specific number of virtual cores associated with it. Larger Droplet sizes receive more virtual cores. When a physical node is underutilized all Droplets are allowed to spike their CPU utilization to take advantage of available CPU cycles.

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