Re: CPU bound

From: James Cloos <cloos(at)jhcloos(dot)com>
To: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
Cc: Royce Ausburn <royce(at)inomial(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance\(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CPU bound
Date: 2010-12-20 15:33:26
Message-ID: m362uo5uht.fsf@jhcloos.com
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>>>>> "MG" == Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> writes:

MG> Good time accounting is the most compelling reason for having a wait
MG> event interface, like Oracle. Without the wait event interface, one
MG> cannot really tell where the time is spent, at least not without
MG> profiling the database code, which is not an option for a production
MG> database.

And how exactly, given that the kernel does not know whether the CPU is
active or waiting on ram, could an application do so?

-JimC
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