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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: 29 Mar 1993 01:03:53 -0500
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Message-ID: <1p63g9$huc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <C4Kw3q.C6M@sugar.neosoft.com> <1p3h1j$sqa@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <C4M2Fx.1Eq@sugar.neosoft.com>
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In article <C4M2Fx.1Eq@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
>
> In article <1p3h1j$sqa@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
> (Charles Hannum) writes:
>>
>> I've seen this happen a few times while creating lots of files (like
>> `tar -cvf - . | tar -C /somewhere -xvf -').
>
> What sort of hardware environment?

HP Vectra 486DX-25, ESDI disk,
No-name 386DX-20, SCSI disk, Adaptec 1542B,
and others.

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