On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Actually, I've been able to do 35K TPS on commodity hardware on Ubuntu
> 10.04. I have yet to go about 15K on any Ubuntu running a 3.X Kernel.
> The CPU scheduling on 2.6 just seems to be far better tuned, aside from
> the IO issues; at 35K TPS, the CPU workload is evenly distributed across
> cores, whereas on 3.X it lurches from core to core like a drunk in a
> cathedral.
Do drunks lurch differently in cathedrals than they do elsewhere?
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