Re: sched_yield() makes OpenLDAP slow

From: Maciej Soltysiak
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 05:48:50 EST


Hello Con,

Thursday, August 18, 2005, 2:47:25 AM, you wrote:
> sched_yield behaviour changed in 2.5 series more than 3 years ago and
> applications that use this as a locking primitive should be updated.
I remember open office had a problem with excessive use of sched_yield()
during 2.5. I guess they changed it but I have not checked.
Does anyone know ?

Back then oo was having serious latency problems on 2.5

Regards,
Maciej


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