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On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:32 -0700, Arrigo Benedetti wrote:

> Have these interrupts anything to do with the load balancer? I have 
> disabled the load balancer code
> in linux/sched.c (just commented out all the code in load_balance()).
> Maybe the only solution is to write a kernel module?

Yes, a kernel module is probably your best solution here

Ben.