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Re: Phase 2 takes too much time to complete


2009/2/12 Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>:
> I am still somewhat puzzled by the huge real time you are seeing. I
> cannot explain that. One thing that we were looking at was memory usage
> (we should do something more clever with scanning the kernel modules and
> not keep them all in memory). But if you have enough memory that
> shouldn't really matter. Is your machine tight on memory?

I don't think so, because the machine has almost 5 GB of physical
memory. The problem
may occur because of the custom kernel I compiled (I enabled several kernel
hacking options such as spinlock tracing, latencytop, etc.), so each
read operation
may incur in a fixed delay.
Best regards
Roberto


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