From: sweh@spuddy.uucp (sweh) Subject: Re: A couple of problems... Date: 24 Feb 1992 20:08:45 GMT
In article <Feb.23.12.44.54.1992.28119@dumas.rutgers.edu> hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
:>2- How do people backup their systems? Trying to create
:> large tar file either on floppies or to a disk file
:>almost inevitably locks up my system. A known
:>problem? Maybe fixed in 0.13? :-)
I get this when tar'ing to floppy, but not to a large disk file.
:Linus has been hoping that these hangs (which occur to several people)
:are due to running out of memory, or possibly to coming close to
:running out (a situation which causes special code in the kernel to
:run to free up memory). I saw a great