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In response to Nick Evans <nevans@talkpoint.com>:

> > I'd start with plain ktrace and look in the trace to check for 'suspicious
> > things'. It might be something trivial like calling gettimeofday() way too
> > often as it was with mysql....
> 
> Done. I can provide the tracefile if anyone is interested. 

Please post this somewhere and provide a URL.  I'm no kernel expert,
but I've had success speeding stuff up through ktraces before ...

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Bill Moran
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