Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

[David G Lawrence]

> Thanks.  Have a kernel building now.  It takes about a day of uptime  
> after reboot before I'll see the problem.

   You may also wish to try to get the problem to occur sooner after boot
on a non-patched system by doing a "tar cf /dev/null /" (note: substitute
/dev/zero instead of /dev/null, if you use GNU tar, to disable its
"optimization"). You can stop it after it has gone through a 100K files.
Verify by looking at "sysctl vfs.numvnodes".
   Doing this would help to further prove that lots of allocated vnodes
is the prerequisite for the problem.

-DG

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