From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 30 0:36:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6278737B405 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:36:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g2U8ZlK72386; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:35:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 00:35:47 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Eric Chang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: untar +400,000 files freezes bsd? Message-ID: <20020330003547.R50913@nexus.root.com> References: <3CA5312F.60CD1E2B@gitgit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CA5312F.60CD1E2B@gitgit.com>; from echang@gitgit.com on Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:29:51PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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