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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 01:21:14PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Any idea what type of impact this patch would have on say, a large qmail 
> server that's drowning in context-switches?

It will depend on how many processes you have running at any one
moment and how often processes are created/destroyed. From the look
of the graphs, you won't really be able to tell unless there are
significantly more than 1000 processes running at any moment.

	David.