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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:

> > The fan of my laptop is goning crazy with this patch ;-) This was 
> > tested with -CURRENT sources as of today + your patch. I'm using ULE 
> > with libpthread. 
> 
> I'm not sure how the fan can be influenced by this, but I'll keep it in
> mind when looking into it.. 
> 
> how is performance? 
> 
> thanks for trying it.. 

The fan spinning is likely a property of more work being done by the
processor...  Something is burning CPU more than before :-). 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research