> I just compared 2.1.46 vs. 2.1.46+pentium memcpy patch, and interestingly
> enough found that the UNIX byte benchmarks tended to _drop_ a fair bit,
> with the exception of process creation and execl throughput. (Note that I
> only ran the basic 'system' tests - TCP bandwidth etc. to be determined
> when I find the newer benchmarks)
>
> This is most interesting since I used to swear by the patch.
do you have a PPro by any chance?
-- mingo