Makes me wonder... perhaps now someone will be convinced to take a look
at the POSIX IPC patch. On some platforms (not on Linux I am afraid)
POSIX mutexes might be quite a bit faster than SYSV semaphores.
Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro wrote:
>
> Hi all:
> again on performance, here is an extract from an 8 read-only queries, notice
> that total time is 179s and it is expending about 80secs only in semaphores
> Isn't there any other way to improve ipc-locks?
> thanks and regards.
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