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Subject: Re: Some odd behaviour of vmstat and vmtotal...
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> In deploying 7.0 at work we were finding a persistent problem when
> running "vmstat 1" on systems.  The problem shows up as a 10ms "pause"
> in processing, usually packet stamping and forwarding by a user level
> process. 

Thats interesting.  I once did some quick and dirty profiling of vmtotal 
and found it runs extremely quickly.  Are you running on slow machines 
(embedded perhaps)?  Or do you have a situation where you perhaps have 
alot more VM objects created than normal?  I can't think of a good 
example where this would be the case..

- Andrew