Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon 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 Article-I.D.: uw-june.165 Posted: Thu Aug 15 01:28:51 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:13:14 EDT References: <489@utastro.UUCP> <2586@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 26 >> 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? -- Human: Gordon Davisson ARPA: gordon@uw-june.ARPA UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!gordon Bitnet: gordon@uwaphast (Sure it's an ugly nodename, but I'm getting up a petition to change it to phastvax. Mail me your votes...) Disclaimer: I have no connection with BHT* or any of its subsidiaries. * BHT is a trademark of Black Hole Technologies, inc.