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From: Sheo Shanker Prasad <ssp@creativeresearch.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:44:53 -0700

> I will appreciate your help in eliminating a disturbing wide variation (by a 
> factors of 2 to 2.5) in the execution time of a test (execution benchmark) 
> program under identical conditions even when the machine is freshly started 
> (rebooted) and no other user program is running (not even e-mail or Internet 
> browser).

You haven't told us exactly what your test program does.