Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 07:28:59 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads across processors Message-ID: <199808252128.HAA00759@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199808251410.KAA01928@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 25, 98 10:10:12 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Garrett Wollman wrote: > I've watched Cyclone hit 150,000 syscalls a SECOND when it's not doing > much of anything. It's impressive that it can do that, but I'd like > to have some CPU left over for useful work... Most of those system > calls were to sigprocmask() to protect some critical section from the > signals that drive the thred scheduler. This comment applies to 2.2.X only, not to 3.0. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199808252128.HAA00759>