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From: Valentin Chopov <valentin@valcho.net>
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Subject: FreeBSD 4.3: "tail -f" on  fifos consumes a lot of CPU time
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Hi,

I found  that a tail -f on fifos consumes a lot of CPU time on 4.3-stable.
On 5.0-current everything seems fine.

Thanks,

Val

Here is an example:
----
mkfifo fifo
while true; do echo bla-bla  >  fifo; sleep 1; done &
tail -f fifo
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