Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> writes:
> The pauses appear to correlate well with sync(2) invocations and
> writing of dirty data to disk.
> 
> 	- pauses are not obvious for me when I kill update

I tried the experiment of killing update and then doing "make install"
on guile (in pkgsrc). I still got the symptom, sadly.

Perry