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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 3 Apr 1997 13:54:24 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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sca@refugee.engr.sgi.com (Steve Alexander) wrote:
Not that i totally disgree with you, but:
> I have seen no apps that I can recall that spend their time doing getpid() or
> gettimeofday() or things like that (the web server does check the time
> periodically, but it's not the big-ticket item). So, from my point of view,
...you've apparently never profiled an X11 application then. ;-) I've just
ran xeyes for a few seconds:
j@ida 863% kdump | fgrep xeyes | wc -l
2319
j@ida 864% kdump | fgrep gettimeofday | wc -l
464
which means 20 % of its syscalls are gettimeofday(). That's IMHO not an
unsignifcant number.
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J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j