>Kfs is not so robust as real fileserver.  I'm now facing this many times.

I should have been more specific ont his problem.   I guess this is concerned
with memory swapping on a swap partition of local disk same with that kfs system 
residing.

My /dev/sdC0 directory shows as:

--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto      10486784 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/9fat
--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto                      0 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/ctl
--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto  1440940032 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/data
--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto       12354048 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/dos
--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto  1428553728 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/plan9
-lrw------- S 0 okamoto okamoto                       0 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/raw
--rw-r----- S 0 okamoto okamoto       29863936 Jan 5 09:47 /dev/sdC0/swap

I'm using this 30MB swap partition for swap region when I use kfs filesystem.

When I tried to compile 9pcdisk with rio, ktrans etc (full spec of my machine),
link loader may face dead lock, and then, I have to type ^^t on the way of 
linking.
Another more occuring situation is tar-ing a large compressed file such as linux 
kernel source to my home directory.

When I load root filesystem from our fileserver for this same machine, on the contrary, 
I have no probelem.

Kenji