Re: Latch spin - OS timeslice

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:17:12 -0000
Message-ID: <1017339367.28811.0.nnrp-13.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

Oh yes it can ! ;)

If it weren't pretty arbitrary, why is it the same for every platform, and why hasn't it changed over the years as CPUs get faster and faster ?

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Yong Huang wrote in message ...


>Somebody in Oracle should know how long 1 latch get spin takes because

>the default _spin_count 2000 can't be an arbitrary number.

Received on Thu Mar 28 2002 - 12:17:12 CST