> Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> > Thank you all for your suggestions; it would appear that my init
> > process had hung somehow
>
> Apparently newer versions of init do a sync() every once in a while.
> This seems totally useless and even dangerous to me (system becomes
> unusable if sync hangs).
I vaguely remember seeing this once (with strace -p 1). It definitely fits
into the "bad" category.
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