John Marconi wrote:
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> I have added a kernel profiler to the timer interrupt of this CPU - and
> find that during this 40ms period, the CPU is in r4k_wait - which looks
> like cpu_idle is running.  It almost seems like file Y is being loaded
> into memory to be used.

That is exactly what is happening.  Pages in the code segment are only 
loaded on demand.


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