On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:23:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, my transcoding just finished as I was writing this. So I've 
> > reproduced the problem with this Python script that I had handy:
> > 
> > memload.py:
> > #!/usr/bin/python
> > a = "a" * 16 * 1024 * 1024
> > while 1:
> >     b = a[1:] + "b"
> >     a = b[1:] + "c"
> 
> i suspect the same latency is triggered by a simple infinite loop too:
> 
>       while : ; do : ; done &
> 
> correct?

Yes.

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