The Speed of Time
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.
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