In article <896625755.474979@zoo-of-death.endicor.com>,
Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> wrote:
> Are you running the pkgsrc amanda? I never had problems with a
> self-compiled 2.4.0 beta on another i386 box.  There were some
> configuration differences between the two (the working version had
> --with-mmap, for example).  That may help track down what's triggering

I rebuild the amanda pkg with --with-mmap and last night's backup ran
fine. This leads me to believe sysvshm is the culprit.