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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 08:35:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: do we care about performance yet?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103300834540.26846-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103301132230.56601-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> >
> > FWIW, I ran a make buildworld this evening on my UP1000 under iprobe,
> > as well as with the receive side of a netperf tcp stream.
> >
> > (for anybody who doesn't know what iprobe is, check out
> > http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/iprobe)
> >
> > For the buildworld, the system spent about 40% of its time in kernel.
> > Roughly 50% of that was in various states of idleness.  I've left full
> > reports at:
> >
> > http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/iprobe_current/
> >
> > The "???NOT_FOUND" is userland code I didn't tell iprobe about.
> 
> I think this is just showing a lot of contention for the Giant mutex (and
> probably some i/o waiting). Since we don't halt on idle, the cpu will
> spend a lot of time buzzlooping on runq_check.

That's what I mean about I/O bound- I looked at runq_check and yes, that's
really 'idle'.



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