process wakeups

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Jul 15 13:39:21 UTC 2008


On Monday 14 July 2008 17:57:56 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Still, since the script records wakeups due to timeouts almost all
> mentions on this list are bad.  Programs should be woken based on
> events.  They shouldn't poll data (which is what usually happens after a
> timeout).

One of the worst that I've found that's not on the list is mysqld. It has 2 
threads that just never stop.

-Steve




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