> this behavior used to be caused by a race in fs/buffer.c, but i thought it
> had been fixed in 2.3.9/10 when the buffer cache was threaded. what were
> you doing on the machine during this time? i haven't seen the problem on
> the most recent development kernels.
>
Well now it's back, this time on pre-patch-2.3.11-3. This time I was doing
a ``diff -urN'' on the kernel source tree. It seems to happen when the
load average goes much over 1 (starts about 1.3-1.5.)
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