Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!nather From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Please help! Message-ID: <489@utastro.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 13:04:49 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.489 Posted: Sun Aug 4 13:04:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:42:12 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 13 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? -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA