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Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl> ,in message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970325101800.31114B-
100000@napa.diva.nl>, wrote:

> Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> > Thank you all for your suggestions; it would appear that my init
> > process had hung somehow
>
> Apparently newer versions of init do a sync() every once in a while.
> This seems totally useless and even dangerous to me (system becomes
> unusable if sync hangs).

I vaguely remember seeing this once (with strace -p 1). It definitely fits
into the "bad" category.

---
Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us
http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/

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