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


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