Evan Rudderow replied:
> This is really unlikely, but...
>
> I recall seeing something about a patch to increase performance on systems
> with small memory configurations -- perhaps you should try installing that
> patch.  On the other hand, if you *have* installed that patch, then perhaps
> you should try *de-installing it*...
 
Well, the patch was not installed.  This was based on the docs which
indicated that the patch was suited fo systems with less than 96 MB.
This old 980 has 160 MB.
 
Thanks for the suggestion though.
 
Also, Birket suggested POSIX overhead as a potential contributing factor.
It is worth further investigation, but we are not directly using any
POSIX features at this point so I'm at a loss as to how it might come into
play.
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