Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <35758.1130538218 at critter.freebsd.dk>, "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes:
>In message <005d01c5dc0c$7ad2c9c0$b3db87d4 at multiplay.co.uk>, "Steven Hartland" 
>writes:
>>For interest I ran truss on a typical game server we run under
>>FreeBSD to get a feel for how much this issue would affect
>>their performance.
>>Below is a small snippet from truss with -D which indicates
>>that they would also benefit from work in this area.
>
>Yes, by about a factor of 0.000005 seconds every .5 seconds
>or a factor of 1/100000 :-)

Sorry, I should go to bed at more civilized hours:  It's
a 5usec per 5msec or a factor of 1/1000.

Still, hardly the killer...

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