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From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
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Tom Arthurs wrote:
> I just puhsd 8.0.3 to production on Sunday, and haven't had a time to 
> really monitor it under load, so I can't tell if it's helped the context 
> switch problem yet or not.

8.0 is unlikely to make a significant difference -- by "current sources" 
I meant the current CVS HEAD sources (i.e. 8.1devel).

-Neil