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Chapter 2 Planning for Workgroups This chapter gives the system manager guidelines for evaluating current system use and performance, and suggests how to translate this information into an effective workgroup configuration. It includes the following topics: * Evaluating current system use * Translating current usage into a workgroup configuration * Understanding the importance of workgroup order * Using GlancePlus to gather performance information * Choosing appropriate scheduling characteristics This chapter also provides an overview of the key concepts that you must understand to tune system performance. In particular, it reviews the function and use of base and limit priorities, quantum bounds, the boost property, timeslice, and CPU percentage bounds.