Oracle and possibly DB2 call gettimeofday to timestamp each potential
roll back transaction. With a large machine, the number of calls to
gettimeofday() can be enormous, as well as one of the top few bottlenecks
for TPC-C style workloads (OLTP).
gerrit
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