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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> wrote:
> > I have been able to reproduce your hang on my system and your suggested
> > fix does prevent it. I am going to run some more buffer starvation-type
> > tests on it this week and if they do not cause other problems, I will
> > put in your suggested fix.
> 
> Thanks, Kirk; seems everyone who's been able to reproduce it can't do so 
> anymore when the synchers are disallowed from waiting on runningbufspace 
> (a couple extra people testing it that haven't spoken up on the list).

Replying to myself -- anyone with any further thoughts, objections, desire 
to fix this one way or another?


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