Thus spake Brian Buhrow
> 	Do you have your swap enabled and working?  Do you have enough swap?
> What you describe sounds like the typical symptom of running out of virtual
> memory.  The kernel runs, answers ping requests, but is caught in a loop
> looking for something to pageout to with no available space.

swapctl -l shows:


Device      512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/sd0b       524288        8   524280     0%    0
/dev/sd1b       524288        8   524280     0%    0
Total          1048576       16  1048560     0%

So that's not it.  Any other suggestions?  I'm willing to speculate and
investigate pretty much anything at this point.

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