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Re: Process priorities

<email@hidden> wrote:

>> This issue is of particular
>> concern to
>> me because I use FreeBSD so frequently...and most of the processes on
>> that
>> platform FEEL like they execute more quickly, dramatically more
>> quickly--doing so on hardware that shouldn't be (isn't) faster.
>
> If you use "top -d" (or "top -ud"), Darwin's top won't consume that many
> cycles either (it's still slightly more than under the other OS'es
> though). It's the gathering of memory statistics that consumes so much
> time. On darwin-development, Apple engineers also always say this is
> because traversing the mach memory maps is a lot of work. Maybe the
> memory mapping under FreeBSD (and Linux) is in fact much simpler than
> under mach... Anyway, the source of all things involved is available, so
> nothing prevents you from finding out what the real cause is (except for
> time, probably :)

I'm just guessing, but could this be because of kernel-architecture?
Micro vs Monolithic?

They used to say, back in the days, that monolithic kernels where faster.

I might be way of though :)

Tor
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