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> > Under 2.6 top shows:
> > user	nice	system	irq	softirq	iowait	idle
> > 0.9	0	5.3	0.9	0.3	92.6	0
> > 
> > Execution time for the test was:
> > real	22m42.397s
> > user	0m37.753s
> > sys	0m54.043s
> 
> 
> Changing 2.6 to 8 from 255 changed times:
> 
> real    25m39.653s
> user    0m37.594s
> sys     0m55.454s

Changing readahead to 8192 increased the real time to 28 minutes and left 
the user and sys times essentially unchanged.

I've recompiled with profiling support.  I'll give an update on that when 
I can.