High load - lost network

[Mel]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008 08:25:10 Christer Solskogen wrote:

> During "dd if=/dev/random of=bigfile bs=500k count=50000" (about 200
> seconds) made the network unresponsive again. Same symptom as I got when
> running make buildworld.

And same command with of=/dev/null?

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.