Re: mutexes, locks and so on...

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Johnny Billquist wrote:

> What I don't get is why it take so much time to even respond to 
> pings, compared to Ultrix or VMS. What are we doing in the kernel??? As 
> usual, I'm open to suggestions...

Have you tried a profiling kernel?  I know that can introduce its own overheads,
but might point out some hot spots...

Cheers,
Simon.