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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:40:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1
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On Thu, October 27, 2005 8:54 pm, ender wrote:

> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2800+ (2133.42-MHz 686-class CPU)
> FreeBSD 6.0-RC1
> SMP kernel,
> #cpu            I486_CPU
> #cpu            I586_CPU
>
>
>
> null function: 0.00471
> getpid(): 0.18755
> time(): 1.18135
> gettimeofday(): 1.17575

Thats pretty odd, considering the following:

FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Sep 24 21:12:10 EDT 2005
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU)

       null function: 0.00145
            getpid(): 0.26670
              time(): 0.85759
      gettimeofday(): 0.83653