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From: gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Please help!
Message-ID: <165@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 01:28:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 01:28:51 1985
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>> We have been running Unix 4.2bsd for a *long* time now, with very high
>> load averages every day.  I guess it was inevitable, but strange effects
>> on many working programs have been traced to a common cause:
>> 
>>       /dev/null is full, and is overflowing!
>> 
>> Anybody seen this problem before?  Can anyone help?

>The solution apparently is not straightforward, else someone surely would
>have discovered it by now.

I heard a rumor that BHT*'s Atlantis lab had developed something they called
the Bottomless Bit Bucket, which was supposed to solve this problem.  This
was some time ago, however, and I haven't heard anything since.  Does anyone
out there know what became of this project?

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