Le Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:40:11 +0100, Florian Boelstler <euphoria@xxxxxxxx> a écrit : > The longish delays actually vanished after the total size of RAM was > reduced from 512 to 256 MB. > The longest reported delay between two consecutive loops is ~2.1ms > now. The periodicity of 10 minutes is completely gone -- strange > isn't it? > > 256 MB / 4KB (page size) = 65536 (= 2^16bit). > > Is someone aware of any implementations that are triggered when some > counter, page table index, etc. overflows? I'd say that your question is enough precise and complex to be asked on the LKML directly, where you may get more answers. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni - thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx http://{thomas,sos,kos}.enix.org - http://www.toulibre.org http://www.{livret,agenda}dulibre.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ