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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] High CPU Usage with Linux 2.6.24 and Windows XP
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Steve Fosdick
<lists@pelvoux.nildram.co.uk> wrote:
>  So, the compiler appear to be the same basic version of gcc, but slightly different build.  I will try recompiling the 2.6.23 kernel with the latest compiler to see if the problem then occurs.

ok

>  Regarding the kernel config itself, I attach the two config files and the output of diff -u.
>

it's really a lot of differences... could you find a minimal kernel
config (which could be almost identical for 2.6.23 and 2.6.24) showing
the slowdown?


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