Regression test for the main problem causing issue #141. Minor changes/fixes/additions to the test suite itself needed to write the test.

tests/helpers/gen_write_load.tcl

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+source tests/support/redis.tcl
+
+proc gen_write_load {host port seconds} {
+    set start_time [clock seconds]
+    set r [redis $host $port 1]
+    $r select 9
+    while 1 {
+        $r set [expr rand()] [expr rand()]
+        if {[clock seconds]-$start_time > $seconds} {
+            exit 0
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+gen_write_load [lindex $argv 0] [lindex $argv 1] [lindex $argv 2]