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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:23:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Valentin Chopov <valentin@valcho.net>
To:        <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   FreeBSD 4.3: "tail -f" on  fifos consumes a lot of CPU time
Message-ID:  <20010628150955.S49104-100000@valcho.net>

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