In message <005d01c5dc0c$7ad2c9c0$b3db87d4_at_multiplay.co.uk>, "Steven Hartland" writes: >For interest I ran truss on a typical game server we run under >FreeBSD to get a feel for how much this issue would affect >their performance. >Below is a small snippet from truss with -D which indicates >that they would also benefit from work in this area. Yes, by about a factor of 0.000005 seconds every .5 seconds or a factor of 1/100000 :-) >0.000010894 gettimeofday({1130534881 790912},0xbfbfe9f0) = 0 (0x0) Grab timestamp >0.009520674 nanosleep({0 5000000}) = 0 (0x0) Sleep half a second (rinse, repeat) It would have been much more interesting if the server was doing something... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 20:23:41 UTC
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