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adverb
- 1. above the level of the head; in the sky: "a helicopter buzzed overhead"
adjective
- 1. situated above the level of the head: "the sun was directly overhead"
- 2. (of a driving mechanism) above the object driven: "an overhead cam four-cylinder engine"
noun
- 1. an overhead cost or expense: "overheads, such as lighting, equipment, and any little extras, are paid for out of a centralized fund"
- 2. a transparency designed for use with an overhead projector: "software for producing slides, charts, and overheads"
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May 18, 2010 · In computer science, overhead is generally considered any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to attain a particular goal. It is a special case of engineering overhead. answered May 18, 2010 at 19:06. Matthew Jones. 26.1k 17 104 156.
May 25, 2017 · tcwicks. 505 3 12. 1. This benchmark conflates the direct cost of context switching with the overhead of scheduler (e.g. to figure out which thread to switch to before a context switch happens) and other overhead (e.g. managing sleep queues), and ignores the indirect costs of context switches. – Brendan.
Jul 22, 2014 · 7. You are correct that a packet generally consists of a header and then the payload. The overhead of a packet type is the amount of wasted bandwidth that is required to transmit the payload. The packet header is extra information put on top of the payload of the packet to ensure it gets to its destination. The overhead is variable because you ...
Feb 24, 2015 · Overhead is Data_free of a table, that is The number of allocated but unused bytes. We can find it by SQL command SHOW TABLE STATUS. It is the free space in allocated size for your table. answered Dec 23, 2013 at 12:40. Shankar Prakash G.
Jan 8, 2009 · Obviously the more data, the more memory. There is some overhead associated with the datatable which makes it a little more expensive. You also need to be aware of the Large Object Heap. If you store objects over 85 kb, the object will be stored in the LOH. This can wreak havoc on your garbage collection as it requires a full collection.
Oct 17, 2010 · 3. Overhead is any usage of a particular resource that's a side-effect of what you're actually trying to achieve. e.g. Struct padding is a form of memory overhead. Pushing and popping arguments on the stack is a form of processing overhead. Packet headers are a form of bandwidth overhead. Think of a resource, it can have an overhead associated ...
Oct 11, 2012 · A macro is less likely to incur such overhead (though again, there is little to prevent a compiler from somehow doing something; the standard doesn't define what machine code programs must expand to, only the observable behavior of a compiled program). Use whatever is cleaner. Profile. If it matters, do something different.
The fixed part of the IPv4 header is 160 bits, or 20 bytes as well. The fixed part of the IPv6 header is 320 bits, or 40 bytes. Thus: for HTTP over TCP/IPv4. overhead = TCP + IP = 40 bytes. payload = 1500 - 40 = 1460 bytes. overhead % = 2.7% (40 * 100 / 1460) for HTTP over TCP/IPv6. overhead = TCP + IP = 60 bytes.
Sep 28, 2008 · The overhead of a normal function call depends on three factors: The CPU. The overhead of x86, PPC, and ARM CPUs varies a lot and even if you just stay with one architecture, the overhead also varies quite a bit between an Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core 2 Duo and an Intel Core i7.
Feb 23, 2011 · Overhead time is a duration that starts with the release of a shared resource and ends with the receipt of that resource. Ideally, the duration of Overhead time is very short because it reduces the time a thread has to wait to acquire a resource. However, not all CPU time in a parallel application may be spent on doing real pay load work.
