sorry, i should have said more. locking up for 10 minutes straight is not common behavior, but in the scenario you described, it's to be expected. fossil was in the middle of archiving its first snapshot to disk. let's call that 250MB. the distributed venti is robust but quite slow -- four long disk seeks per write if you are running index and arenas on the same disk. on a single disk i expect around 1-3GB/hour. so 10 minutes for that 250MB is entirely within the ballpark.
as forsyth noted, during archive snapshots fossil usually does respond to requests, but you explicitly told it not to by running fshalt. it didn't finish halting until the archive was done. i suppose halt could stop the archiver and let it pick up again later. but it doesn't. russ
