Found some co-workers at work yesterday to load up my library...
The sample period is 5 minutes long (vs 2 minutes previously):
Context switches - avg max
Default 7.4.1 code : 48784 107354
Default patch - 10 : 20400 28160
patch at 100 : 38574 85372
patch at 1000 : 41188 106569
The reading at 1000 was not produced under the same circumstances as the prior
readings as I had to replace my device under test with a simulated one. The
real one died.
The previous run with smaller database and 120 second averages:
Context switches - avg max
Default 7.4.1 code : 10665 69470
Default patch - 10 : 17297 21929
patch at 100 : 26825 87073
patch at 1000 : 37580 110849
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20:13:50 up 3 days, 2:58, 4 users, load average: 2.12, 2.14, 2.10
Linux 2.6.5-01 #7 SMP Fri Apr 16 22:45:31 MDT 2004