What were teh effects? How did the author notice? Was his server lagging? his OSX machine? If would be pretty awesome if you could dos MACs with 250KB/s flood.
That's a good question. I should have mentioned that in the post perhaps. The reason I initially ran vmstat was just to make sure my dev machine was "zeroed out". Recently my kernel builds had taken twice the time as normal and I wasn't sure why. That's when I noticed this. It turns out this had no significant effect on my build times but was rather an effect of a different change I made weeks prior. I also noticed no ill effects on my laptop that I recall.