On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:17:06PM -0800, John Joe wrote: > sorry this is not Debian question, but could you > kindly explain "heavy lock contention", and especially > the "heavy" in it? Actually it looks like a homework question to me, like the "wire-level" one a day or two ago. I don't know about others, but if this is the case I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask homework questions here. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]