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From: "Ross Biro" <rossb@google.com>
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Subject: Re: Page Faults slower in 2.6.25-rc9 than 2.6.23
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Balbir Singh
<balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Aah.. Yes... but I am definitely interested in figuring out the root cause for
> the regression.

I can't reproduce the 2.6.23 results.  I'm going to run the benchmarks
a few more times, but I'm suspecting something changed with the
hardware.

    Ross