{"id":14050,"date":"2014-12-19T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/cpu-contention\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:19:14","slug":"cpu-contention","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/30864\/cpu-contention","title":{"rendered":"CPU Contention"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_cpu_contention_mean\">What Does CPU Contention Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>CPU contention is an event wherein individual CPU components and machines in a virtualized hardware system wait too long for their turn at processing. In such a system, resources (e.g., CPU, memory, etc.) are distributed between different virtual machines (VMs). As different processing resources are assigned to different machines, the schedulers in the system order the input\/output and other tasks. The processing of these tasks is delayed when the machines assigned to them are experiencing a CPU contention.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_cpu_contention\">Techopedia Explains CPU Contention<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Experts who look at CPU contention warn that this type of internal conflict can happen easily in a virtualized system. However, there are different ways to analyze the system to find out whether CPU contention is a problem. IT professionals look at the work of the VM kernel in handling the different processing demands. A metric called percent ready (%ready) shows how long a machine has to wait for processing power. When this number climbs too high, it indicates CPU contention.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are also broader strategies for avoiding CPU contention; for example, experts suggest &#8220;building out&#8221; instead of clustering virtual CPU allocations in ways that can cause bottlenecks and contention issues. 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