Re: syscall gettimeofday
From: Perianayagam Somasundaram (somu_at_CS.Arizona.EDU)
Date: 10/19/05
- Next message: Pete Zaitcev (OTID3): "Re: Spinlocks"
- Previous message: Dan Miller: "Re: asm output with source lines; resolved..."
- In reply to: karbi: "syscall gettimeofday"
- Next in thread: karbi: "Re: syscall gettimeofday"
- Reply: karbi: "Re: syscall gettimeofday"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:14:28 -0700 To: karbi <karbi791_spam@o2.pl>
What kind of a file system are you using?
Secondly, how did you measure that gettimeofday is the frequently
used system call from the application or did you instrument the
kernel itself.
Somu
*************************************************************************
"I've never understood how God could expect his creatures
to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a
sloppy way to run a universe."
Robert A. Heinlein
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
*************************************************************************
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, karbi wrote:
> I'm doing some research on system calls. I discovered that gettimeofday
> is second of most frequently used syscalls. It takes almost 16% of all
> syscalls. It is very frequently used by such applications like:
> xmms, XFree86, mozilla, OpenOffice and much more. Why is that so ?
>
> PS. Sorry for my poor english ;)
>
> --
> Micha³ **KArbi** Ostrowski
> mailto: karbi791_spam@o2.pl
> talkto: gg:1018951, jid:mic chrome.pl
>
- Next message: Pete Zaitcev (OTID3): "Re: Spinlocks"
- Previous message: Dan Miller: "Re: asm output with source lines; resolved..."
- In reply to: karbi: "syscall gettimeofday"
- Next in thread: karbi: "Re: syscall gettimeofday"
- Reply: karbi: "Re: syscall gettimeofday"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
