On 6/19/06, Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@xxxxxx> wrote:

I am glad to discover that I misunderstood you. ;) But I am still having
trouble understanding what the actual problem is, or even if one exists.

Well, I ran some tests, and no problem exists, yet. Running the following:
# time xentrace -e 0x81000 /tmp/test22-passmark.trace
change evtmask to 0x81000
real 7m15.456s
user 0m0.080s
sys 0m0.050s
# ls -l /tmp/test22-passmark.trace
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2654091720 Jun 21 14:49 /tmp/test22-passmark.trace
So although 2.6 gigabytes was generated in 7 minutes, the total time
spent in user and system (if the numbers time report are accurate) was
less than .13 seconds.
The only potential issues would be with cache trashing -- both the
buffer cache (from plain writes to the file), and the cpu caches (from
copying the data). If anyone finds a workload this is a problem for,
we can look at it then.
-George
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