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From: Jaye Mathisen  <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
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Subject: What the heck is state newbuf?
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top is showing my gzip in state "newbuf", and it's compressing at a
monumentally microscopic pace...

It's on an NFS partition. 

Normal file access seems OK, but this is not normal.