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From: be-news06@lina.inka.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
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Subject: Re: Why is 2.4.32 four times faster than 2.6.14.6??
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Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> It's rather strange that 2.6 *eats* CPU apparently doing nothing !

it eats it in high interrupt load. And it is caused by the pty-ssh-tcp
output, so most likely those are eepro100 interrupts.

Gruss
Bernd