I agree it isn't a major performance problem under that workload. But, I
thought since the contention was high that other workloads which may
utilize it more might have shown it to be a significant problem.
> I've attached 2 changes that might reduce the contention, but it's just
> an idea, completely untested.
Thanks for the insight into the sempahore subsystem and the suggested fixes.
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