On 22 October 2010 06:42, David Wolfskill wrote:
>> Julian's suggestion of booting the 8.1 kernel on the 7.1 OS will definitely
>> narrow down the list of suspects.
>
> I'll see about doing something along those lines, but I doubt it will be
> all that helpful, actually.
It narrows down the susp
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> ...
> An observation: on 8.1, both user and sys times are less, but real time is
> higher. So 8.1 finished the build using less CPU, but spent more time
> waiting for something else.
Interesting; thanks for pointing that out.
> Disk?
In the last episode (Oct 20), David Wolfskill said:
> Almost 2 years ago, we migrated from a lightly-patched 6.2-R to 7.1-R with
> 5 commits that were made to 7.1-S backported to it. On the same hardware
> (not the HP mentioned above), I measured a 35% reduction in elapsed time
> for one particula
