On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:24:00 -0800, Charles Polisher wrote:
Kwan Lowe wrote:
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You might explore what vmstat says about disk activity during an initial vs follow-on run. Also, I wonder what "top" shows in the WCHAN and nFLT columns.
The problem is OBE since I added some real processing to the code, and I no longer get the apparent buffering.
But please see my new thread: "top and allocation issues".
Mike.