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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: kmem_map overflow with 0.2.2 kernel
Date: 28 Mar 1993 01:36:35 -0500
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In article <C4Kw3q.C6M@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
>
> I have been getting reproducible kmem_map crashes using the
> /tmp/extract program. Using "cat bin* | compress -d | cpio -pcdumv"
> works, but I'd like to find out what the problem is.

I've seen this happen a few times while creating lots of files (like
`tar -cvf - . | tar -C /somewhere -xvf -').

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