Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:03:05 -0600 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: RSDL-mm 0.28 |
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:01:32PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:28:22PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Ok I don't think there's any actual accounting problem here per se > > (although I did just recently post a bugfix for rsdl however I think > > that's unrelated). What I think is going on in the ccache testcase is > > that all the work is being offloaded to kernel threads reading/writing > > to/from the filesystem and the make is not getting any actual cpu > > time. > > I don't see significant system time while this is happening.
Also, it's running pretty much entirely out of page cache so there wouldn't be a whole lot for kernel threads to do.
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