Unpredictable performance

Hi, I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following test without other processes running (exception is udev, I believe): cd /usr/src/test tar -jxf ../linux-2.6.22.12 cp ../working-config linux-2.6.22.12/.config cd linux-2.6.22.12 make oldconfig time make -j3 > /dev/null # This is what

Unpredictable performance

Hi, I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following test without other processes running (exception is udev, I believe): cd /usr/src/test tar -jxf ../linux-2.6.22.12 cp ../working-config linux-2.6.22.12/.config cd linux-2.6.22.12 make oldconfig time make -j3 /dev/null # This is what I