Subject: Re: nfs panic
To: None <mirian@xensei.com>
From: Kazuki Sakamoto <sakamoto@cec.co.jp>
List: port-bebox
Date: 11/16/1998 13:19:07
mirian@xensei.com wrote:

 > > > 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.
 > 
 > Well, hurm.  Apparently I spoke too soon; even after increasing the
 > swap space to 120 megs (on a 48 meg RAM system), it's happened again,
 > this time during a compile.

I think that there is a problem in Interrupt and Memory Mapping
and so on, yet. In any case, I want to prepare for new binary snapshot, soon.

Kazuki Sakamoto
sakamoto@cec.co.jp