Stefan Wurstbauer wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Has anyone an idea?

This sounds very much like a bug I fixed on the 26th of March.
1.6ZK falls within that time frame.  Please try a kernel where your
kern/vfs_bio.c is rev 1.122 or greater.

Simon.
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