On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:16:17PM -0800, Bevan C. Bennett wrote: > Yes, I've just been doing some basic profiling with 'time program' using > one specific multithreaded (Java-based) application with various input > files. To be more exact, I only see the differences on the largest of > these sample cases, less intensive runs show a smaller difference. When you say "largest", which parameter are you scaling? Are you using a significant fraction of RAM? RHEL and Fedora have a completely different VM. Also, highmem support in FC1 may be broken. I'd suggest using Oprofile or readprofile to find where the kernel is spending its time. Regards, Bill Rugolsky