freebsd stable - Apr 2005 - kern/79208: Deadlock or starvation doing heavy NFS writes with writev

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FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p6 (SMP) #0: Wed Mar 30 14:28:31 CEST 2005
on i386 is vulnerable as well, so it has been b0rken for some time now,
I'm afraid.

Marc
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Hmm, network services like an ircd, keep functioning until they need to
write a log entry, so it seems that the only thing that's
"hanging", is
the VFS layer.

Marc