> Thank you all for your suggestions; it would appear that my init
> process had hung somehow
Apparently newer versions of init do a sync() every once in a while.
This seems totally useless and even dangerous to me (system becomes
unusable if sync hangs).
Any ideas why the sync() has been put in?
[The author of sysvinit appears to be on a world trip and cannot be
contacted]
Cheers
Michiel