Hey Robert,

There shouldn't be any difference at all. Can you send a couple more  
lines of mpstat output?

- ahl

On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
> HI,
>
>  T5220, S10U4 + patches
>
> mdb -k
>> ::memstat
>
>
> While above is working (takes some time, ideally ::memstat -n 4 to  
> use 4 threads could be useful) mpstat 1 shows:
>
> CPU minf mjf xcal  intr ithr  csw icsw migr smtx  srw syscl  usr  
> sys  wt idl
> 48    0   0 1922112     9    0    0    8    0    0    0 15254    6   
> 94   0   0
>
>
> So about 2mln xcalls per second.
> Let's check with dtrace:
>
> dtrace -n sysinfo:::xcalls'[EMAIL PROTECTED]();}' -n  
> tick-1s'{printa(@);clear(@);}'
> dtrace: description 'sysinfo:::xcalls' matched 4 probes
> dtrace: description 'tick-1s' matched 1 probe
> CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
> 24  47924                         :tick-1s
>            28274
>
> 24  47924                         :tick-1s
>            27808
>
> 24  47924                         :tick-1s
>            27721
>
> 24  47924                         :tick-1s
>            27736
>
> ^C
>
> less than 30k per second.
>
> I guess dtrace output is more reasonable but I'm not sure.
>
> Why the difference?
>
>
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