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The search for fast, scalable counters

The search for fast, scalable counters

Posted Feb 9, 2006 10:55 UTC (Thu) by addw (guest, #1771)
Parent article: The search for fast, scalable counters

A sweeper thread is probably needed that, once/second, consolidates the local (per cpu) counters onto the one global one that is seen in /proc.
That way slow moving counters don't become too inaccurate.


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