On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:52:53 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >... I found that if I run that driver program at a leisurely pace, perhaps 15 >events per second, then 1000 records consume about .2 CPU seconds. But if I >drive records through the program as fast as it can handle them -- about >12,000 records per second -- then each 1000 records consume about .083 CPU >seconds -- LESS THAN HALF as much.
I would guess that at 15 events per second, some your cache is stolen by other tasks, with the result that memory is accessed, causing lengthened instruction execution times. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
