Re: -mmX 4G patches feedback [numbers: how much performance impact]

From: Martin J. Bligh
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 17:44:10 EST


>> is on you. And if you think i'm upset about your approach to this whole
>> issue then you are damn right.)
>
> the one upset should be the users running 30% slower with stuff like
> mysql just because they own a 4/8G box. There's little interest from my
> part to spend time on 4:4 stuff when things are so obvious (I want
> however to try to benchmark the HZ=1000 with the hint).

Isn't that scenario fixed up by vsyscall gettimeofday already?
Or was this another workload, where gettimeofday wasn't the problem?

M.

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