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From: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 02:55:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: kern/3299
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Synopsis: /dev/console hangs

Responsible-Changed-From-To: bde->freebsd-bugs
Responsible-Changed-By: bde
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Aug 28 02:48:58 PDT 1997
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
I'm not working on it.
The problem is actually in ttymsg().  ttymsg() forks o once per call
when the tty is not accepting output.  This can fill up the process table.