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Re: Grow heap aggressively during music interpretation (issue 561390043


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Grow heap aggressively during music interpretation (issue 561390043 by address@hidden)
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:43:48 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 5, 2020, at 07:59, address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> and it seems stable, but I have yet to build a theory why OS thread
>> migration actually improves performance…
>
> Educated guess: The core gets too hot.  The OS is not allowed to move
> the thread to a cooler core, so it throttles the clock rate instead.

Heat dependent throttling would explain the rather drastic variation in
performance since it acts with large latencies.

-- 
David Kastrup



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