[Trac #82] Look for misbehaving userspace apps.

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:11:13PM -0400, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
> On behalf of Jim Gettys, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote:
> >  All those timers are very heavyweight, so I can't imagine a significant
> >  performance impact from them.
> ITYM 'lightweight'.
No, he doesn't. But I agree that the sentence construction sucks.

Perhaps what he said is better worded as:
"The timers are heavyweight, so I can't imagine a significant
performance impact from the counters."

In comparison to the timers, the counters are indeed lightweight - much
lighter than SystemTap et al.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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