On Monday 14 July 2008 17:57:56 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
Still, since the script records wakeups due to timeouts almost all
mentions on this list are bad. Programs should be woken based on
events. They shouldn't poll data (which is what usually happens after a
timeout).
One of the worst that I've found that's not on the list is mysqld. It has 2
threads that just never stop.
-Steve