Re: Wierd context-switching issue on Xeon

On Apr 19, 2004, at 8:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
[test case]

Quad P3-700Mhz, ServerWorks, pg 7.4.2 - 1 process: 10-30 cs / second
                                                 2 process: 100k cs / sec
                                   3 process: 140k cs / sec
                                   8 process: 115k cs / sec

Dual P2-450Mhz, non-serverworks (piix)  - 1 process 15-20 / sec
                                                 2 process 30k / sec
                                         3 (up to 7) process: 15k /sec

(Yes, I verified with more processes the cs's drop)

And finally,

6 cpu sun e4500, solaris 2.6, pg 7.4.2: 1 - 10 processes: hovered
between 2-3k cs/second (there was other stuff running on the machine as
well)


Verrry interesting.
I've got a dual G4 at home, but for convenience Apple doesn't ship a
vmstat that tells context switches

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