[OpenAFS-devel] 1.4.0-rc4 weirdness

[Dale Ghent]

On Nov 16, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Do the counts and nsec columns indicate total number of calls and time
> wait spent since the beginning of the process?  Since plockstat was
> called?  Or something else?
>
> Assuming it is total number of calls and time waited it calls into
> question some of the theories of the impact of the host mutex lock
> contention being the problem since the wait values are very small
> compared to the count.  Please provide more detail on what these  
> numbers
> mean.

Note that output I posted was gathered from a fileserver process that  
was (and still is) running normally.

Rather than trying to explain it myself, I'll just post the url to  
its man page:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kqbe?a=view

This post clued me in to it:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ahl?entry=plockstat

/dale

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Dale Ghent
UNIX Systems Specialist
UMBC - Office of Information Technology
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