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    SubjectRe: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)
    On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:34:25PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
    >
    > * Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:
    >
    > > > vsyscall-sys_gettimeofday and vsyscall-sys_time could help quite some
    > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    > > > for mysql. Also, the highly threaded nature of mysql on the same MM
    > >
    > > he said he doesn't use gettimeofday frequently, so most of the flushes
    > > are from other syscalls.
    >
    > you are not reading Pete's and my emails too carefully, are you? Pete
    > said:

    I thought time() wouldn't be called more than 1 per second anyways, why
    would anyone call time more than 1 per second?

    >
    > > [...] MySQL does not use gettimeofday very frequently now, actually it
    > > uses time() most of the time, as some platforms used to have huge
    > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    > > performance problems with gettimeofday() in the past.
    > >
    > > The amount of gettimeofday() use will increase dramatically in the
    > > future so it is good to know about this matter.
    >
    > Ingo
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