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Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 15, 2009 19:38 UTC (Tue) by branden (guest, #7029)
Parent article: Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Given my misunderstanding of the headline, I propose:

That the act of measuring lock contention henceforth be defined as "poettering" (likely pronounced "pottering" by those unfamiliar with the rules of German pronunciation); and

That the unit of lock contention (derviation TBD) henceforth be called the "lennart".

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Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 15, 2009 21:26 UTC (Tue) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103) [Link] (1 responses)

Ahem. It's not pronounced "pottering".

The 'oe' is actually pronounced like the german Umlaut 'ö', as described on Wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-mid_front_rounded_vowel

That said writing 'Pöttering' would be wrong.

Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 16, 2009 7:21 UTC (Wed) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

> Ahem. It's not pronounced "pottering".

I believe (!) that is what the OP was saying in the first place.

Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 16, 2009 1:28 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (2 responses)

Pronunciation issues aside, I second the motion!

Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 16, 2009 16:12 UTC (Wed) by Doogie (guest, #59626) [Link] (1 responses)

Hoorah, now I can look forward to retiring to a life a poettering around the house. :)

Poettering: Measuring Lock Contention

Posted Sep 21, 2009 14:57 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

I propose: 1 La = threads waiting on a specific lock × seconds held.