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Re:System CPU Usage and Glibc by st_goliath on Thursday August 19, 2021 @09:39AM (#28233676)
> Nothing in this article makes any sense.

Well, that's basically it.

The author appears to have heard some explanations on Unix & OS internals, but not quite understood them and appears to confuse a lot of things. From the looks of things, I figure the author did some voodoo problem solving and then, convinced of having understood the problem, decided to write an article about it.

There's a lot of second guessing, e.g. what the mmap flags do, based solely on their name, resulting in the bizarre connection to security guarantees; casually dismissing over-commit (because "nobody would do such a thing"), etc...

Re:System CPU Usage and Glibc by formerly_proven on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:04PM (#28235558)
This reminds me a little bit of a lengthy blog article by some FAANG engineer about picking optimal chunk sizes for I/O where he did a lot of benchmarking with /dev/null and /dev/zero.