> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
> > > OK, so it's not crash as in panic, good. If you wait a while,
> > > does it recover? The machine might be just thrashing. Turning
> >
> > unfortunately not. no disk I/O and stall. (3 hours now after crashed)
>
> 	Do you have options New_bufq_strategy enabled? It doesn't seem to
> play nice with softdeps as of late.
>

is it possible that - because squid has nice -10 priority - when it's
running there's not enough CPU for ioflush/reaper/etc..?