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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: taunted by happy extract command Date: 22 Jul 1992 08:22:12 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <14j5rkINNd4n@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Jul20.213814.10944@athena.mit.edu> <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <14g475INNknj@agate.berkeley.edu>, wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: > This is due to the fact that the buffer cache is allocated out of kmem_map, > and is undersized for systems above 12MB (you lucky devil, I've only 8MB!). Hmm. You mean, "12MB and more", right ? I got that sort of problem while extracting the srcdist. BTW the system tends to re-boot for no appearant reason sometimes, and without any messages about panics and the like. Ahem. I'll send out the registration and a thank-you-note as soon as I've got the mail and uucp system configured :) Bernard