>Actually I noticed something else with 2.2.12 also. It runs >significantly slower than 2.2.10. I use no debugging symbols, or >anything else obvious that should slow it down. The command 'top' >regularly eats up 10% CPU by itself, while it used require some 2% >with 2.2.10. Very strange. I haven't noticed any ill effects here but I tend to run 2.3 kernels mostly. I'll do some experiments tomorrow and see if I can reproduce the slowness. p.