H. Hartzer wrote: > I tested a couple of times with grep and had no crash. It does hang > though, and I agree that it makes it unresponsive. > > bsd# time grep foobar 1 > ^C^C^C^C^C 838m18.24s real 160m44.71s user 552m45.29s system > > (I waited quite a while before doing ctrl+c, and it took a very long > time to die.)
If I neglected to mention this earlier, I was unable to reproduce the issue if the underlying fs is ext2, only ffs. So that may give some clues as to where the problem lies. Regards Lloyd
