Re: stat very inefficient

Andrew Morton
2004-07-29T09:05:21Z

Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew wrote:
> > hmm. Here's a Pentium III profile ...
>
> What conclusion do your draw from this profile?

At a quick squint: we spend about 10% of total system time in those copy
functions. If we halve their runtime (which would be good), we don't gain
much.