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    > the system stops responding, loadavg goes to 5-8(!), CPU is 100% busy.
    > this lasts for ~10 seconds.

    Does this happen on _any_ other system but yours?

We can't support a negative answer to that question without asking
lots more users.

I don't mind making a change to fix this,
but it must not do a full-second sleep before the first wait3,
and it must not use usleep since that is obsolete.