Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4361F057.4030904 at pp.nic.fi>, Pertti Kosunen writes:

>Does polling affect to this test?

Not apart from the CPU overhead.

	sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware

is much more important.

and all the reports here which fail to include it are mostly
useless.


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