# CPU / No Wait (The Sweat) The Elephant is currently hammered away at a task. He isn't waiting for a book (IO) or a coworker (IPC); he is simply at the absolute limit of his thinking capacity. ![[CPU]] ### Internal Logic & Algorithms When the elephant is processing high volumes of calculation or memory-intensive tasks: ![[ExpressionEvaluation]] ![[MemoryAlgorithms]] ![[TupleProcessing]] ### Spinning Specialized wait events where the elephant is "Spinning" his wheels, waiting for a short-duration shared memory lock without relinquishing the CPU. ![[Spinning]]