> the default on ia64 (32MB) was way too large Agreed. It took about 9 minutes to search the first pair of cpus (cpu 0 to cpu 1) from a size of 67107840 down to a size of 62906, based on some prints I added since my last message.
> it seems the screen blanking timer hit Ah - yes. That makes sense. > do a search from 10MB downwards. This > should speed up the search. That will help (I'm guessing not enough - will see shortly.) > verbose printouts I will put them to good use. Thanks. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/