sucking mud

(Or "pumping mud") (Applied Data Research) Crashed or

wedged. Usually said of a machine that provides some

service to a network, such as a file server. This Dallas

regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut

'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query.

"We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready to

suck mud?"

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-15)