Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no> writes:

> Ken Wellsch <kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > Writing with putc()...^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^Z^\^\^\  (no affect)
> > load: 6.38  cmd: bonnie 314 [uvn_fp1] 15.94u 7.80s 0% 296k
> > load: 6.43  cmd: bonnie 314 [uvn_fp1] 15.93u 7.81s 0% 296k
> > [...]
> > with every new ^T I type, the load climbs...
> > [...]
> > system responds to pings also but that is about it.

> This might be related to a problem I see [...] just like the above,
> except that the state reported by ^T is "[getnewbuf]".

It's still there in -current (at least on the Sparc), and it only
occurs during large scale writing to partitions that are mounted with
the softdep option.

-tih
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