Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!fbp From: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Please help! Message-ID: <660@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 10:26:27 EDT Article-I.D.: cybvax0.660 Posted: Tue Aug 6 10:26:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:19:09 EDT References: <489@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: fbp@cybvax0.UUCP (Rick Peralta) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 16 In article <489@utastro.UUCP> nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes: >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? > What if you remove /dev/null will all of that data explode the machine if suddenly released ? Rick ...!cybvax0[!dmc0]!fbp "A likely story. I don't believe a word of it."