From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 1 10:52:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6172D37B406 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC221BCFA; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:52:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32458; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:52:38 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA1Ip4k53400; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Nicpon, John" , Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! References: <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA2293FF3@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 01 Nov 2001 10:51:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3y3d3ye353.d3y@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > If you delete > /dev/null (which effectively disables the CPU data sink) your CPU may > run cooler but your system will quickly become constipated with all > that excess data and start to behave erratically. In addition to the constipation, the daemons get the chills when away from a hellish heat for too long. Easy to confuse with a virus. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message