Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian@xensei.com> writes:
> 
> The latest problem I have is with NFS mounted filesystems.  When
> untarring a gzipped archive on an NFS mounted filesystem, I reliably
> get a panic when a certain large file is unpacked (the same large file 
> each time).

Okay, after playing around with this, I've identified the problem as
the system running out of virtual memory.  Increasing the amount of
swap space seems to have solved it.

--Mirian