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From: Pete French <petefrench@keithprowse.com>
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Subject: Re: HTT and SMP question
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> Are you sure that exactly the HTT is causing you
> the instabillity problems ?

Yes, (see previous threads). It causes processes to exit with
odd values, and I am not the only one seeeing it. It only
happens if I enable shceduling on the HTT virtual processor.
Its stable in the default mode, but slightly slower that
if I dont compile SMP in at all.

-pcf.