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Christian Schmid <webmaster@rapidforum.com> wrote:
>
>  This makes me seriously to despair.... the bug/lock/freeze is still there in 2.6.12rc6 ...
> 
>  I am seriously offering 1000 dollars to the one who fixes this. (No Joke. I NEED that fixed. If you 
>  want me to give that money to some organization, tell me.)
> 
>  Please come back to me if you need more details or tell me what I can do to help you track this 
>  down. Review all postings before please. Its a vm-lock because even opening a /proc file needs 
>  around 20-30 seconds...

Did we have a test program which someone can run to reproduce this?

We'll pay you $1,000 to write it ;)