Date: 12 Jun 1999 14:12:52 -0700 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@home.com> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High syscall overhead? Message-ID: <m3vhctdsx7.fsf@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: Brian Feldman's message of "Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:23:40 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906121416520.8587-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> writes: > > One way of tackling the problem is - to implement per lock profiling > > and detect which locks are being contested heavily and try breaking > > them down. That would be a practical way of doing things. > > But you can't generalize FreeBSD's usage, can you? > While it's true that no one can see all possible uses of FreeBSD, one has to make assumptions about the typical usage - web server, file server etc and use it as the design center, while making sure that it doesn't perform too badly on other less common workloads. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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