Stephen Costaras said:
> CFLAGS=-DTIME -m486 -funroll-loops -finline -fstrength-reduce -ffast-math
> -fomit-frame-pointer -O3
>
> Now, I have seen results (posted on www.linuxnow.com and several other places
> for other systems even P5 systems) that are running approx 2000-3000 lps for
> Execl throughput and a little higher process creation tests. System in this
> case is not under load (0.0).
>
> I have upgraded all core libraries/code (ld.so 1.9.1, binutils.2.7.0.9,
> gcc-2.7.2.1, libg++-2.7.2.1, libc-5.4.23, kernel (2.0.29), et al. No
> difference before or after nor across any of my other systems.
>
> Does anyone have any idea WHY this is happening, or WHAT could cause this? I
> have 'patched' my original problem with apache by playing with the lifespan of
> the spawned tasks but this is still an issue why I'm only getting 1/10th the
> throughput here.
The benchmark test performs so many execl() calls to the same program in a short
time that it is significantly better to _statically link_ the test program. That
is, what you're seeing with the benchmark is not a sluggish execl() system call
but rather the overhead due to loading dynamically linked libraries.
For real-world programs which do something besides calling execl(), it's good
practice to link them dynamically, but for this part of the benchmark (and
probably others) I wouldn't recommend it. In any case, try it again with the
-static flag and see what happens.
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