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> If you were to time a 'make -j 8' or whatever, you'll currently notice
> that it is no faster than a 'make'....  Parallel scheduling is rather
> broken as a result of automatically starting the AP cpu's.  I don't know
> why, but turning it off (again!) fixes it.

Could the disappearance of sig11 be related to the broken parallel scheduling?

Before the merge of the current, if there is only one active cpu 
with smp-kernel, sig11 does not show up often.


Jim