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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core
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> That almost certainly has nothing to do with how many CPUs your system 
> has, since rm -rf is a single process running on a single core.

Well, yes, common sense would also tell me that. But the systems should
be identical aside from the number of cores. Both installed off 7.0-BETA3
CD's today, configured identically, same files pushed to them.

-pete.