On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > OK, so now we know that while the new lock code handles the select(1)
> > > problem better, we also know that on AIX the old select(1) code wasn't
> > > as bad as we thought.
> >
> > It still seems that the select() blocking method should be a loser.
>
> No question the new locking code is better.  It just frustrates me we
> can't get something to show that.

Even though I haven't completed controlled benchmarks yet, 7.2b4 was using
all of my CPU time, whereas a patched version is using around half of CPU
time, all in user space.

I think not pissing away all our time in the scheduler is a big
improvement!

-jwb

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