On Thu 18 Aug 2005 at 01:54AM, Phil Harman wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> This is related to the undersized batch issue I mentioned in an earlier 
> thread. From your data we can see that the batch (sample) size is 1. 
> This is broken. It means that alternate batches will use PROT_NONE and 
> PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE. I suspect one of these is cheap, and the other 
> is not ... at least this would explain why you get two distinct timings 
> with 50% of the samples in each.
> 
> This is another instance of a change in libMicro exposing some 
> interesting behaviour (which seems to deserve further investigation). 
> But it also points to more work needing doing on the new duration 
> control code in 0.3.0.

Ok.  Thanks.  Is it reasonable to consider any 0.3.0 results valid in
this case?

Is there a patch I can apply?

        -dp

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