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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Bond, Andrew wrote:
 > I believe I need to clarify my earlier posting about kernel features that
 > gave the benchmark a boost.  The kernel that we used in the benchmark was an
 > unmodified Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 kernel.  We did tune the kernel via
 > standard user space tuning, but the kernel was not patched.  HP, Red Hat, and
 > Oracle have worked closely together to make sure that the features I
 > mentioned were in the Advanced Server kernel "out of the box."

Have you done much profiling of that kernel?  I'm sure a lot of people would be 
very interested to see even readprofile results from a piece of the cluster 
during a TPC run.

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Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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