I wrote:
> About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't
> guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears
> in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to
> use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so
> more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so
>
I wrote:
> About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't
> guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears
> in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to
> use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so
> more or less instantaneously. It continues to do so
> i
I wrote, inter alia,
> About 6 minutes after booting (on two occasions; I don't
> guarantee that this doesn't vary), a process that appears
> in the output of "ps" as "[swi4: clock sio]" begins to
> use about 3/4 of the machine's CPU. I think it does so
> more or less instantaneously. It continues
ying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
-- dmesg output ends --
I would be grateful for any insight into what's going wrong and how
(if at all) it can be fixed or worked around. I'm not subscribed to
-questions or to -stable, so would prefer to be cc'ed, but I'll
I'm thinking about getting a DVD writer as a backup device
for use with my -STABLE system. It's not clear to me what
level of support there is for this in -STABLE.
1. If I just want to treat a DVD as an unusually large CD,
will that "just work"? I mean, can I build a 4GB ISO9660
filesystem
