John Marconi wrote:
I have added a kernel profiler to the timer interrupt of this CPU - and find that during this 40ms period, the CPU is in r4k_wait - which looks like cpu_idle is running. It almost seems like file Y is being loaded into memory to be used.
That is exactly what is happening. Pages in the code segment are only loaded on demand.
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