Subject: Re: NetBSD current out of memory using tape drive
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/06/2004 15:07:26
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:43:30PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > here's a new view on my latest tape drive problem.
> > It I use the amanda tool amtapetype -f /dev/nst0 on my system, after a
> > while I can't start any new processes. I got some errors like "cannot
> > fork" "out of memory" or I totally hangs.
> >
> > Increasing the limits of datasize, stacksize or openfiles solves the
> > problem just for a few minutes.
>=20
> you should use nrst0 - raw tape drive
>=20
> anyway - i don't know what's tape block device for these days.

ANSI tapes, once somebody writes a file system.

What we need to compete with VMS is ANSI tapes and clustering.

	-is

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