Steven,
I haven't run dbench with that many clients myself (or if I had, it's 
been a while).  I'm currently working on fixing some scalability issues 
in JFS.  In doing so, I'll try to reproduce your problem and make sure 
it gets fixed.
Thanks,
Shaggy
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