Dave Jones wrote:
FC1 - Stock 2.4 VM from 2.4.22 (Before the recent large -aa merge) Taroon - Rik van Riel's rmap vm. 2.6 - Completely different again, but with some elements of rmap vm (Ie the actual reverse mappings part).
FWIW, I installed kernel-smp-2.6.0-1.30 and the test program ran quite well (not exhibiting the FC1 thrashing), so it's quite possibly rmap (or at least vm) related. Thanks again.
I'm trying to figure out a little bit of 2.6/NIC/kudzu weirdness that's preventing the new system from bringing up it's network without intervention, but that's for a different topic.