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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> And don't try to make me explain why the patchbomb has any IO time at all,
> it should all have fit in the cache, but I think the writeback logic
> kicked in.

The default log size on ext3 is quite small.  Making the log larger 
probably would have helped.

	-hpa