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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:03:03 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Too Much Context Switching?
Message-ID:  <48692DE7.3020502@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080630181755.GA3327@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20080630165205.GA3033@lpthe.jussieu.fr>	<48691D7C.2090804@FreeBSD.org> <20080630181755.GA3327@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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Michel Talon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Yep, it could be that -- what confuses me though is that it is claimed 
>> that performance suddenly regressed.  If so then this cannot be the 
>> underlying cause.
> 
> It may be that the load has augmented to the point that contention
> imposes a rapid regression on throughput.

Yes, it could be that.  I don't know off-hand whether multiple threads 
are counted separately by vmstat (at a guess I'd say no), but ps/top/etc 
should show how many are active in the python process.

Kris



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