Calculating contention percentages

You can use a formula to calculate the percentage of global contention and false contention in your data sharing environment.

Use the following calculations:

Total contention is the number of deferred requests ( B ) divided by the total number of requests ( A ), multiplied by 100. So, for this example:
```
(621 / 162000) × 100 = .387%
```
This indicates that the global contention rate is approximately 0.39 % (a good figure).
False contention is the number of false contentions ( C ) divided by the total number of requests ( A ) multiplied by 100. For this example:
```
(212 / 162000) × 100 = 0.13%
```
Thus, the rate of false contention is 0.13 % (a very good figure).