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Subject: Re: Sad state of afairs for US ftp mirrors 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:32:37 -0700
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>No problem I think -- just ftp it from wcarchive.  But it was refusing
>incoming connections (421 Service not available, remote server has closed
>connection) (seems to be doing this a lot lately).

   This is/was caused by a failing disk causing processes to deadlock until
enough of them pile up that the system runs out of swap space. It will get
fixed on Monday.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project