This issues has now been fixed in the svn.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Louie, Joshua D
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>                 We have a case where using boost asio is causing us a huge
> performance penalty. I pulled the client/server example code from the boost
> website (modified to pass more data) and found that when I wrapped the
> server using DMTCP, I saw at least a 100x slowdown. No matter what the
> timeout given by the original call to epoll_wait, we always call
> _real_epoll_wait with 1000.
>
>
>
> I think the code should maybe do something like this:
>
> 1)      If timeout >= 1000, use it in sets of 1000
>
> 2)      If timeout < 1000 && timeout >= 0, use the given timeout
>
> 3)      If timeout < 0, then …
>
> a.       Use a low number like 5 or 10, but this might result in excessive
> calls to _real_epoll_wait
>
> b.      Use an incrementing counter for timeout which caps out at 100
>
>
>
> In my case, both a and b worked out well for me bringing performance back to
> pretty much normal (aka without dmtcp). Of course, real implementation of it
> is up to however you see it done best. I saw this problem on 1.2.6 and on
> the trunk as of several months ago. I saw the latest trunk is significantly
> reorganized, but I’ve not tried it with the latest trunk (though the code in
> eventwrappers.cpp is still the same).
>
>
>
> Joshua Louie
>
>
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