Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:51:54 -0700 |
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In message <20021023051208.GA1350@eskimo.com>, > : Elladan writes: > gettimeofday() call frequency *can* be very high, but let's test it...
Oracle and possibly DB2 call gettimeofday to timestamp each potential roll back transaction. With a large machine, the number of calls to gettimeofday() can be enormous, as well as one of the top few bottlenecks for TPC-C style workloads (OLTP).
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