On Thursday 10 August 2006 17:55, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:48:18PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > attached the output of `gprof` on both runs > > > > slow: > > (gdb) maintanence set profile > > (gdb) file vmlinux > > (gdb) speed-test > > (gdb) quit > > If you want useful profiles, I recommend not profiling "file". > We already know that's slow :-) erp ! actually, loading the kernel took just shy of a second > But at a guess, you'll still have a symbol lookup on top of the profile. yeah, new one attached looks as you thought -mike