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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:42:19PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> I wrote some code last night to write a predictable pattern of bytes on
> one side of a pipe and read it back in on another.  I ran several sets of
> these programs over night, one doing 16byte transfers, another doing
> 16384, and another doing 100,000,000 bytes in 2xPAGE_SIZE chunks.

Can you post the test code?  Maybe Kris could run it on the Alpha custer
during some builds also.