Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.fr> said:
>> system call in user-mode Linux is a context switch, and the result of
>> all the gettimeofdays() is that the processor runs hot
>
>In the meantime, a bag of ice cubes balanced on top of your processor
>might help.  (Tip-of-the-week: It's better if the bag doesn't leak.)
>
Thanks. But running the itimer-based version helped a lot better ;-) 

The only thing left to solve is why Squeak kept exiting on the UML box earlier
this week...

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