Gaetano, > I knew there was an evaluation on the futex vs spinlock, > and Josh Berkus on IRC told me that there was only a 20% > performance increase, is this increase to throw away ?
Before we get totally off track here .... I evaluated futexes strictly as an attempt to solve the context switch storm bug. I did NOT test whether they improved performance overall. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings