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Thread Pools

Thread pools on the JVM should usually be divided into the following three categories:

  1. CPU-bound
  2. Blocking IO
  3. Non-blocking IO polling

Each of these categories has a different optimal configuration and usage pattern.

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jetsonhacks / maxCPU.sh
Created November 19, 2014 00:28
Set CPU to full performance on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Development Kit
#!/bin/sh
# Set CPU to full performance on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Development Kit
if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
echo "This script requires root permissions"
echo "$ sudo "$0""
exit
fi
# To obtain full performance on the CPU (eg: for performance measurements or benchmarking or when you don't care about power draw), you can disable CPU scaling and force the 4 main CPU cores to always run at max performance until reboot: