>>>>> "MG" == Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com> writes:
MG> Good time accounting is the most compelling reason for having a wait
MG> event interface, like Oracle. Without the wait event interface, one
MG> cannot really tell where the time is spent, at least not without
MG> profiling the database code, which is not an option for a production
MG> database.
And how exactly, given that the kernel does not know whether the CPU is
active or waiting on ram, could an application do so?
-JimC
--
James Cloos <cloos(at)jhcloos(dot)com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6