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Omar Kilani wrote:

>Anything else I should be monitoring?
>
>

Take a profile of each kernel. Boot with profile=1, then run:

    echo 0 > /proc/profile ; ab --foo --bar ; readprofile | sort -nr | 
head -n30 > profile.out

And send in the profiles for both kernels.