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?
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