Re: mmap (was First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some wierdness ...

Mark Wong <markw@osdl.org> writes:
> I know where the do_sigaction is coming from in this particular case.
> Manfred Spraul tracked it to a pair of pgsignal calls in libpq.
> Commenting out those two calls out virtually eliminates do_sigaction from
> the kernel profile for this workload.

Hmm, I suppose those are the ones associated with suppressing SIGPIPE
during send().  It looks to me like those should go away in 8.0 if you
have compiled with ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY ... exactly how is PG being
built in the current round of tests?

			regards, tom lane