>> What is the system doing for 3.35s for such a light task ? Also, the
>> real time should be 5s, not 10s. Does top or systat vm reveal some
>> high system CPU usage ?

Also my "systat vm" output is here
http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-ohc5t8/systat-vm

(I removed the last escape sequences that refresh the screen. cat'ing the 
file should work.)

  Jeremy C. Reed

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