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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness
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"Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org> wrote:
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 (the linux-kernel email convention is "reply to all", btw)
 
>  test6 goes from 30 mins to 24 mins - still worse than test5 by a lot.

What sort of context switch rate are you seeing during this run?  Running
`vmstat 1' will tell.