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Maximum number of syscalls per thread?
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Maximum number of syscalls per thread?


  • Subject: Maximum number of syscalls per thread?
  • From: Alison Cassidy <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 16:39:37 -0700

Hi all,

Just a quick question! I'm running an app which is used for testing i/o. Right now, I'm running a thread at an elevated priority which does a lot of pread() calls. The app works fine but is a little slow & right now, I'm fine-tuning it. One issue, though; when I fire up BigTop, find my process and look at the system call throughput, I notice that it appears to be capped at 9000 calls/sec. I'm guessing this is being throttled by a kernel parameter. Is there any way this can be modified? I can understand why there is an upper limit on something like that, but I don't mind if my particular app/thread dominates the machine. The device I'm hitting is more than capable of beating that, so I'm definitely not saturating the driver. Thoughts / hints / ridicule welcome :-)

Best regards,

Allie
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