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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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John Lee <johnl@aurema.com> writes:
>
> On the contrary, any reports of strange/bad behaviour are useful. It 
> probably is related to the scheduler, as no one seems to have reported 
> this problem with stock 2.6.4.

Actually I saw it on 2.6.5rc2 with your scheduler patch merged
(and my x86-64 patchkit, but that is unlikely to affect scheduling
decisions). 

-Andi