On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 4:15 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-06-29, Sven F. <sven.falem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear readers,
> >
> > I probably did something silly again,
> > Could you help with a bit of knowledge around performance ?
> > My openbsd CPU (6.8) is spinning a lot :
> >
> >  0.0%Int  53.1%Spn  25.8%Sys  19.6%Usr   1.4%Idle
> >
> >  * Is this bad ?
> >  * What kind of basic operation ( like basic shell scripting ) could do 
> > that ? ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
>
> This means the kernel is spending a lot of time waiting for other CPUs
> to exit locked sections.
>
> First things first, try 6.9, the malloc cache implementation changed
> and that may help.
>
>

Thank you,

Can I use ktrace to check where the lock comes from ( can't really put
6.9 easily to test ) ?
Will try to get 6.9 anyway, but it would be either to know what i need to test.


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