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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: "gnode: table is full" and "File table overflow"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.205501.5834@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan27.144336.14130@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:55:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.144336.14130@cs.hw.ac.uk>, raz@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ross A Macintyre) writes:
- >
- >Recently errors like these have been reported on our 5000/200.
- >These errors are reported by users and don't seem to appear in the error logger.
- >This was the output after "ls -l":
- >
- >*bug.chk.sgi: File table overflow
- >*yp_pass.chk: File table overflow
- >*extra_src: File table overflow
- >*total 546
- >*getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
- > [ etc, etc, etc, ]
-
- The command of interest is pstat(8) with the option -T. This prints
- the sizes of some of the kernel tables. I'll include sample:
-
- % pstat -T
- 171/ 609 files
- 138/ 444 gnodes
- 48/ 288 processes
- 34/ 42/ 76 active/reclaimable/total texts
- 253/1843 00k swap
-
- You seem to be running of entires in both the "files" and "gnodes" table
- and probably need to make both larger. The simplest way is to simply
- raise "maxusers" in the configuration, rebuild and reboot. The sizes
- of these tables are calculated based on the value of maxusers. This
- will also increase the size of some of the other tables. Now most of
- the entires are pretty small and it would a large increase of maxusers
- to use signifncantly more memory for the tables. Still, if this is a
- concern, the sizes are set in param.c and you could modify the algorithm
- that calculates the sizes.
-
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >
- >Ross
- >
- >PS The only real change to the system in the last few days is that I added
- >automount maps to Yellow Pages.
- >
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- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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