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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [Patch] Scale pidhash_shift/pidhash_size up based on
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Robin Holt wrote:
> 
> It was initially detected while profiling 'ps' on a 2048p machine that
> had 13 kernel threads per cpu.

Grr. Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on that "13 kernel threads per 
cpu" part?

		Linus