I am very happy to report that with the recent commits to -current I can now run my script that reads some 16000 small files in over NFS links at full speed and to completion without locking the box. *BSEG* Many, many thanks for this, it was a huge area of concern for my boss that even though the box performed well under real world load it was falling down on this step (building configuration files). Chalk one up for the good guys. Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message