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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:35:30 +0530
From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul Menage wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>  I agree, but like I said earlier, this was the easily available ready made
>>  application I found. Do you know of any other highly threaded micro benchmark?
>>
> 
> How about a simple program that creates N threads that just sleep,
> then has the main thread exit?
> 

That is not really representative of anything. I have that program handy. How do
we measure the impact on throughput?

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	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL