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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Proceses that won't die - follow up
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 08:43:19 -0500 (CDT)
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Do you have any NFS mounts in the root directory?

> For some reason at the same time the system decides to not kill any 
> processes (except shells) the system won't allow an ls -l of the / 
> directory. If one tries /bin/ls /, there is no problem, but for the -long 
> information, it just STOPS. In fact very few proceses that do any sort of 
> file i/o (cp, find, etc) seem to be working very well. I haven't seen, or 
> have reason to believe that the filesystem has errors on it.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>