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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
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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."