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What is a CPU tick?

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Question: How is a CPU tick calculated and what does it represent? Does a single equate to thus if some thread reported not called for ( ) does this mean the CPU was perhaps too busy to schedule the aforementioned thread to work?

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A tick is an arbitrary unit for measuring internal system time. There is usually an OS-internal counter for ticks; the current time and date used by various functions of the OS are derived from that counter. How many milliseconds a tick represents dā€¦

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