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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: vnode_pager_putpages hanged my machine
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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:07:45PM +0900, Rob wrote:
> Did the machine end up in an eternal loop and ate up all resources?
> A bug in vnode? Or in the pager?

It looks like convert was killed because it ran your machine out
of memory - that might explain extream slugishness if everything
else had been swapped out. It also looks like /var was completly
full.

	David.