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On 12/14/11 12:54, Tom Evans wrote:
> [...] This thread has shown that ULE performs poorly
> in very specific scenarios where the server is loaded with NCPU+1 CPU
> bound processes, [...]

Minor correction: Problem occurs when there are nCPU compute-bound
processes, not nCPU + 1.                            -- George Mitchell