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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:14:52 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen@pp.nic.fi>, current@freebsd.org, "Yuriy N. Shkandybin" <jura@networks.ru>
Subject:   Re: Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1
Message-ID:  <4361FA1C.1070103@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <30622.1130493370@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <30622.1130493370@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4361F057.4030904@pp.nic.fi>, Pertti Kosunen writes:
> 
> 
>>Does polling affect to this test?
> 
> 
> Not apart from the CPU overhead.
> 
> 	sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware
> 
> is much more important.
> 
> and all the reports here which fail to include it are mostly
> useless.
> 
> 
I suspect because our time() function in libc uses gettimeofday,
this further causes lots of gettimeofday syscall.






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