doktor5000 wrote:What type of file are you running this on
Disk image got by dd. AFAIR this issue also happened if I use 7z a -si to compress stdin.
doktor5000 wrote:where is it located (underlying filesystem and what physical type of storage).
NTFS, HDD. AFAIR this issue also happened on Ext4.
doktor5000 wrote:Also, what do you expect to happen when you do this? Your box will basically be using 100% CPU which might be freezing e.g. your graphical desktop partially or fully, depending on what scheduler is being used for that device and if you're not using something like ionice or similar.
Had no experience of freezing GUI, using default Mageia settings. Just saw that strace shows futex syscall being executed in every process, single call longs in a minute for every subprocess.