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📚 Amount of work 💻 Computer tasks
workload

workload

4 3.5
The total tasks and requests a computer must handle
  • noun
  • /ˈwɜrkˌloʊd/
  • Specialized
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  • The system performed well under a heavy workload during the peak hours.
  • server workloads
  • commercial workloads
  • workload characteristics

So that's where the performance increase in non AVX workloads like gaming is coming from.

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Examples

  • Predictive models help automate or provide insights for resource provisioning, capacity planning, workload management, scheduling, and configuration optimization.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Process scheduling is an area for which adaptation to workload could enhance system performance.

    Academic text (1994)

  • We got one person online; the workload is enough for like ten users.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • And we were surprised to see that basically we're faster on this workload on a rotating disk.

  • There's some simple things we can do where we can actually run a production workload on a production box.

  • This was under a combined CPU plus GPU workload, so it's fine.

  • The degree of data sharing in both workloads is maintained at 100%.

    Academic text (1997)

  • By contrast, other workloads move large blocks of information, creating high data rates.

    Academic text (2000)

  • All of these factors are causing the already high miss rates of server workloads to become even higher.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Commercial workloads differ substantially from scientific and engineering workloads in their demands on the system.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

work
vsworkload
∞ 1.0

Effort people use to do a job or task

is about system task volume for measuring performance and scheduling
load
vsworkload
278 1.1

An amount of things carried at one time, like cargo on a vehicle

is the total volume and mix given to a computer for planning

How Heavy

overload
30 4.4
workload
  • Specialized
4 3.5

Surface Forms

workload singular
workloads plural

Morphology

workload = work + load (transparent) = work + load

Compound sense extended metaphorically to computing (amount/burden of tasks on a system) but remains inferable from the components.

Etymology

Workload in computing uses the same idea: work ('tasks') plus load ('amount to carry'). So, a computer's workload is the number and type of jobs it must handle at the same time.