In message <Pine.NEB.4.61.0501041405350.796@chris.i8u.org>, Hisashi T Fujinaka 
writes:
>On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> I have a new Dell 8400 with 1G of RAM and a big SATA disk.  I brought
>> up -current on it (from yesterday's source).  When I tried unpacking
>> two tarballs at once (pkgsrc, from an on-disk file and src, from a CD),
>> something hung.  If I try to run 'find' on /usr/pkgsrc, the find
>> command hangs, in a fashion unkillable by 'kill -9'.  ps shows that
>> it's in vnlock.
>>
>> The kernel is GENERIC.MPACPI; here's the dmesg, if it matters.
>> ---
>> NetBSD 2.99.12 (GENERIC.MPACPI) #0: Mon Jan  3 08:33:45 EST 2005
>> 	smb@berkshire.machshav.com:/usr/BUILD/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
>.MPACPI
>
>There was something weird this weekend with src/sys/uvm/uvm_km.c that
>caused me all sorts of disk access headaches. Do you have v 1.73?
>

The answer is yes and no -- I have it, but I accidentally burned a CD 
from older source...  I just reinstalled; I'll see if it's better.  
Thanks.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb