Re: nfs panic

[Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian%xensei.com@localhost>]

Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian%xensei.com@localhost> writes:

> Mirian Crzig Lennox <mirian%xensei.com@localhost> 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.

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.

Before the panic, I happened to notice a lot of
        nfs_timer: ignoring error 48
messages going by.

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Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
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