> file hierarchies, or doing other heavy filesystem (metadata probably?)
> operations.  On an i386, I've only seen a softdeps related panic
> once or twice since 1.5 (I'm still using softdeps on i386 but nowhere
> else, and not on production servers either.)  Perhaps the testing
> of softdeps on 1.5.x wasn't as exhaustive regarding the various ports
> as it should have been...
never got ANY crash with softdeps with 1.5.1 & 1.5.2

even with untarring pkgsrc while compiling kernel