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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:01:20 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: do we care about performance yet?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010330150120.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <15044.1867.943183.224703@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On 30-Mar-01 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I ran a make buildworld this evening on my UP1000 under iprobe,
> as well as with the receive side of a netperf tcp stream.
> 
> (for anybody who doesn't know what iprobe is, check out
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/iprobe) 
> 
> For the buildworld, the system spent about 40% of its time in kernel.
> Roughly 50% of that was in various states of idleness.  I've left full
> reports at:
> 
> http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/iprobe_current/
> 
> The "???NOT_FOUND" is userland code I didn't tell iprobe about.
> 
> The top few functions were:
>                                             Sample Image Total
>  Name                                       Count   Pct   Pct
>  ----                                       -----   ---   ---
>  /boot/kernel/kernel                      1411352        39.3 
>    runq_check                              283261  20.1   7.9 
>    procrunnable                            268553  19.0   7.5 
>    idle_proc                               161822  11.5   4.5 

These 3 are only used when we are sitting idle in the idle proces because there
are no runnable proceses.  We can't really optimize these away. :-/

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