i'm still getting these, which i hoped would go away. :(

venus: multi1.c:144: RPC2_MultiRPC: Assertion `(context = get_multi_con(HowMany)) != ((void *)0)' failed.
23:23:22 Fatal Signal (6); pid 1585 becoming a zombie...
23:23:22 You may use gdb to attach to 1585

(gdb) where
#0  0x420292e5 in sigsuspend () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1  0x080aca91 in strcpy ()
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0x42029241 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#4  0x4202902a in raise () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#5  0x4202a7d2 in abort () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#6  0x42022ddb in __assert_fail () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#7  0x400598e4 in RPC2_MultiRPC (HowMany=8, ConnHandleList=0xd7e2ccc,
    RCList=0xd7e2d0c, MCast=0x0, Request=0x81a2120, SDescList=0x0,
    UnpackMulti=0x4005c490 <MRPC_UnpackMulti>, ArgInfo=0x151d0ba8,
    BreathOfLife=0x0) at multi1.c:144
#8  0x4005bc4c in MRPC_MakeMulti (ServerOp=63, ArgTypes=0x8102e10, HowMany=8,
    CIDList=0xd7e2ccc, RCList=0xd7e2d0c, MCast=0x0, HandleResult=0,
    Timeout=0x0) at multi2.c:327
#9  0x0805e3e5 in strcpy ()
#10 0x080522e7 in strcpy ()
#11 0x0806d815 in strcpy ()
#12 0x080a798f in strcpy ()
#13 0x080ab9d1 in strcpy ()
#14 0x080a25fa in strcpy ()
#15 0x4007ff56 in Create_Process_Part2 () at lwp.c:796

this occurs while caching a lot of files at once, as it has in the
past, and it seems to occur more frequently with 6.0.1. i found this
old post in the archives, perhaps it's related:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist/codalist-1999/1130.html

perhaps it would be possible to raise that hardcoded limit from 8
to something higher? 

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