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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!mbramwel.business.uwo.ca!MARK From: MARK@novell.business.uwo.ca (Mark_Bramwell) Subject: tar extract error - Too many files open Organization: Western Business School Date: Wed, 19 Jan 1994 20:09:58 GMT Message-ID: <MARK.710.2D3D9396@novell.business.uwo.ca> X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev Final Beta #7] Sender: news@julian.uwo.ca (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mbramwel.business.uwo.ca Lines: 24 I have a wierd problem. I am tryiny to use bsd as a X11 server (xdm). All of that works ok. I have an X11 terminal that uses tftp to download its code. That sort of works. It gets so far then fails to load anything else. One clue. When I was untarring a file with alot of small files, it bombed and said 'too many files open'. I had to tar xvfk xxx.tar to get everything untarred. Has anyone had this type of problem before? Shouldn't tar close each file before going on? Is there a timeout before the system actually sees the file closed? fs buffer problems? Since the X terminal is loading its fonts off the NetBSD box, it might be seeing the openning on fonts as 'open files' even though tftp should be closing then after xfer. I am using NetBSD-0.9 from agate.berkeley.edu, not the -current. I recompiled tftpd to see if that helped. It didn't, however, tar has nothing to do with that. Is this a 'known' problem?