Sounds similar to someone else's report yesterday which raised some
suspicion about the recent vm system changes.

I'm running with a kernel based on Tuesday morning's sup (Feb 11) with no
problems, so the error must be _very_ recent.

On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Taras Ivanenko wrote:

> I recompiled the kernel last night from the latest sources and got a
> broken system. It boots without noticeable problems but when I try to
> start X it hangs. I was able to start X once out of four tries (and
> hard reboots)  but it was working extremely slow. Every keystroke
> caused few seconds of disk activity (swap?) and I had to
> reboot. Eventually I removed all suspicious programs from init files
> (memory disk on /tmp, color video) and tried to boot with GENERIC
> kernel build from the same sources. No luck either, (mono) X hanged.
> I do not have external terminal so I could not try to kill everything.
> In addition, the system does not want to reboot, it blanks the screen
> and waits till I hit the reboot button few times. 
> 
> The last working kernel I had was build from Feb.8 sources, so
> something was changes last week. My system is IIcx without any special
> hardware.
> 
> 	Taras Ivanenko.
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