Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:34:25 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end) |
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* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
> > vsyscall-sys_gettimeofday and vsyscall-sys_time could help quite some ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > for mysql. Also, the highly threaded nature of mysql on the same MM > > he said he doesn't use gettimeofday frequently, so most of the flushes > are from other syscalls.
you are not reading Pete's and my emails too carefully, are you? Pete said:
> [...] MySQL does not use gettimeofday very frequently now, actually it > uses time() most of the time, as some platforms used to have huge ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > performance problems with gettimeofday() in the past. > > The amount of gettimeofday() use will increase dramatically in the > future so it is good to know about this matter.
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