[Trac #82] Look for misbehaving userspace apps.

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Mon Sep 18 22:24:32 EDT 2006


Oh, my, I really did screw up that sentence, didn't I :-(.

And yes, this is what I meant.
                                 - Jim


On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 19:01 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> 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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