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On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:57:54, David Wolfskill wrote:
DW> The only hardware upgrade was to increase RAM from 6GB to 96GB,
DW> which was done for all of the machines being discussed.

FYI: RAM size increase can cause performance regression, probably due to
decreased CPU TLB cache hit rate.