> 2.6.24.7-1.rt3.2.fc8.ccrmart 13:53 > 2.6.26.7-1.rt11.1.fc8.ccrmart 4:09 > Sanity check: you did "scons -j4" on both of those tests, right? Ingo and his team have been fixing some esoteric priority inversion and thread creation slowdown bugs since 2.6.23, but as far as I knew, they mostly affected 64-bit kernels. David