Does this happen on a different filesystem? (If you don't happen to have a non-reiserfs partition try to mount tmpfs, the in-memory fs somewhere)
- Bug#257040: gzip hangs system with large argume... Christoph Hellwig
- Bug#257040: gzip hangs system with large a... Christoph Hellwig
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