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At 10:35 AM 03/05/2004, Scott Long wrote:

>The tests that we were doing involved operating on a lot of small files.
>Doing something like untaring four or five copies of the FreeBSD source
>tree in parallel should probably trigger it.

Approximately how many file operations do you need blocking to trigger the 
problem ? I am having problems recreating the issue. I had upto 10 
processes blocking on IO writing out copies of /usr/src, but doing an md5 
checksum on the resultant files did not show any issues.  Does CPU usage 
need to be high as well ?

         ---Mike