From af7840548b016f57c75d9a41316b04e0aa0aa384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brooks Davis Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:05:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The reducing syscall overhead has some signficant work in progress so note it's existance and add attilio@ as a contact for it. --- en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml index 364bd5a446..7db267df11 100644 --- a/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml +++ b/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ideas//EN" - $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.127 2009/03/21 14:21:26 stas Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.128 2009/03/22 21:11:13 erwin Exp $ @@ -404,7 +404,9 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.

Avoiding syscall overhead -

Technical contact: Kris Kennaway

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Technical contact: + Attilio Rao, + Kris Kennaway

setproctitle() calls are a serious performance bottleneck in a default pgsql configuration (they are @@ -424,6 +426,10 @@ these buses to be a subclass of this new base class.

massive security holes, performance issues (perhaps not visible in simple benchmarks), etc.

+

Work is currently in progress on this and is undergoing review. + It is not complete, but intersted parties should contact Attilio + before beginning work.

+

Requirements:

  • Strong knowledge of C.