Comment 244 for bug 595047

I had done some initial testing on my x86_64 box, of 2.6.17 vanilla (downloaded from kernel.org), and it seems to me that it has the problem too. I don't understand why my problem started with 2.6.18 if the vanilla 2.6.17 has the problem. Note that I tested the first 2.6.17, and the last version of 2.6.17. I'm thoroughly confused. I think I'll switch to 2.6.17, and run that for awhile to see if there's better performance overall. Perhaps loading it is not the best way to see if there's latency issues, as there will be some.

Then, if I do see some improvement, I'll increment to 2.6.18. Hopefully, slowly but surely I can figure out which exact kernel as the problem, and then a kernel dev can fix it. That's the plan anyhow. :P