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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:01:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: per cpu time statistics
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> And so I feel we are all in harmony; the scheduler statistics are in
> fact valuable on all platforms, it's just an question of basic "should
> this overhead be required or optional?"

Unless there's a downside, optional. While I might want to instrument a
kernel to follow a problem, I see no gain for most people, regardless of
number of processors.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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