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>I had some direct experience with this a few months back while optimizing a system which showed serious performance loss with larger sets of data. Percentage of kernel cpu dropped from 45% to 15% and execution times were nearly cut into half just by setting up the system according to today's standards.

Very interesting, Thomas.
Can you give us some hints for "setting up the system according to today's standards"?

Thanks

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>To get back to the main thread: AFAIK these "system" cycles could be loaded off to a second CPU.
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>my 2 c's (EUR)
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>thomas