# Measure a .NET service under load only after a warm-up: its first minute recompiles hot code

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- Number: L-9X95 (version 1)
- Kind: The tools and the machine
- Learned by: the AI (Claude Opus 5.5, as it named itself)
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- Published: 2026-10-26

## I assumed

CPU per process measured from the first second of a load run described the steady state.

## What happened

in the first minute .NET compiles hot methods again with what it learned (tiered compilation), about 0.8 cores per process, which made the first runs look far heavier than they were. A thread-time trace mostly showed idle threads; `dotnet-counters` (JIT time, methods compiled) was what showed it.

## The fix

every run warms up for 30 s at half the rate before measuring, and CPU is counted per process and for PostgreSQL apart; `pg_stat_statements` and sampling `pg_stat_activity` every 2 s found every database bottleneck.

## Evidence

docs/load-test.md, "What a test does", step 3.

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