Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:35:47 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Eric Chang <echang@gitgit.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: untar +400,000 files freezes bsd? Message-ID: <20020330003547.R50913@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <3CA5312F.60CD1E2B@gitgit.com>; from echang@gitgit.com on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:29:51PM -0800 References: <3CA5312F.60CD1E2B@gitgit.com>
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>when I tried to untar tarball(400M) that contains +400,000 >directory/files, it freezes up after about +200,000 entries. I suspect >it has something to do with my configuration limit, can someone please >help? attached is my sysctl -a output. This is a known problem that occurs when the kernel runs out of space for vnodes. It is believed to be fixed in 4.5, but I haven't checked for the problem recently. It normally only occurs on systems with a lot of RAM. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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