* Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:02:40AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > This isnt me streaming gigs of data in and out of the system 
> > dirtying 90% of all RAM. This is a trivial workload barely 
> > scratching the RAM and CPU capabilities of the system.
> 
> Have you tried with maxcpus set to say, 2?  My guess is you won't see
> the problems in that case.

Note, my previous devel box was a single socket quad and it had such 
delays all the time as well. Havent tried it on a dual-core. (i dont 
have dual-core systems with enough RAM to be able to build a kernel 
purely in RAM)

	Ingo
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