Re: kern/36712 (tar extraction cause cannot create pipe, too many open files)

[George Georgalis <george%metrumrg.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/36712; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: George Georgalis <george%metrumrg.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36712 (tar extraction cause cannot create pipe, too many
        open files)
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:43:43 -0400

 On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:47:48AM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >Synopsis: tar extraction cause cannot create pipe, too many open files
 >
 >Responsible-Changed-From-To: security-officer->kern-bug-people
 >Responsible-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >Responsible-Changed-When: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:47:48 +0000
 >Responsible-Changed-Why:
 >Category was changed to kern a while back.
 
 yes fine..
 
 the problem doesn't show itself on regular use, I'm using 2Gb
 Fibre twice a day to receive hardlink "pseudo backups" and have
 139 days uptime.  However if I max the fibre with IO it will crash
 in a couple hours.
 
 I'm guessing this is the same event that caused an 8 core machine
 to lock shortly after it did a site bootstrap compiling 3 or 4
 hours from pkgsrc, over nfs (netbsd-3). That system has otherwise
 been stable with sata & Gb ethernet (almost 200 days production
 uptime now).
 
 // George
 
 
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