Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>"Jim Starkey" <jas@...> wrote:
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>> 2. How exactly are we going to track execution time of a request?
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>Elapsed time. Every request has a timestamp of its beginning. Then we get
>the current time in the looper and compare.
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>> 3. What are the implications on system performance in tracking and
>> probing request execution time?
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>Subject of measuring, but I doubt it will be noticable.
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The cheap way to handle this is a ticker threat that bumps a counter in
the database block once of second, so no system call is necessary to
poll elapsed time.

I continue to think that elapsed time is a remarkable poor way to handle
this.