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<<On Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:57:54 -0700, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> I should have mentioned this.
> /tmp is on /, which is UFS, mounted noatime and with softupdates enabled.
> Plenty of freespace:    /dev/da0s1a  1.3G  843M  361M  70% /

Same thing happens to me, but it's when sending mail (!) so there's no
necessary correlation to the particulars of the filesystem.

I note that it doesn't lock up all the way immediately, but I can
continue the race with a `ps' which gets it reliably all the way to
the root.

-GAWollman


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