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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:51:23 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting timing tests
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> yet for one machine conf.nmach == 4 and for the
> other conf.nmach == 16; neither is calling halt.

Hypothesis: with four processors there's enough work to keep all
the cpus busy.  With sixteen processors you're getting i/o bound
(where's the filesystem coming from?) so some of the cpus are
idling, and would call halt if they were allowed to.