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- From: raz@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ross A Macintyre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: "gnode: table is full" and "File table overflow"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144336.14130@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:43:36 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
- Lines: 67
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- 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
- *getsvc: stat failed: File table overflow
- *getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
- *getsvc: stat failed: File table overflow
- *98797 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 410 15 3228 Mar 10 1992 MANIFEST*
- *getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
- *and so on....
- *
-
- I notice from the error logger that it says it is out of gnodes
- "uerf -R" produced output like this:
- uerf version 4.2-011 (16)
-
-
- ********************************* ENTRY 1. *********************************
-
- ----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
-
- EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
- OS EVENT TYPE 250. ASCII MSG
- SEQUENCE NUMBER 1842.
- OPERATING SYSTEM ULTRIX 32
- OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Wed Jan 27 14:23:22 1993 WET
- OCCURRED ON SYSTEM thor
- SYSTEM ID x82020220 HW REV: x20
- FW REV: x2
- CPU TYPE: R2000A/R3000
- PROCESSOR TYPE KN02/R3000
- MESSAGE gnode: table is full
-
- ********************************* ENTRY 2. *********************************
-
- Can someone tell me what is needing done? I suspect the kernel might need
- rebuilding but what changes need to be made? What table needs to be made bigger?
- Or is one of the file systems needing rebuilt? df -i -l gives
-
- Filesystem Total kbytes kbytes % inodes inodes %
- node kbytes used free used used free used Mounted on
- /dev/rz1a 19975 11758 6220 65% 923 7269 11% /
- /dev/rz1g 238647 185478 29305 86% 8768 71104 11% /usr
- /dev/rz1d 29743 13889 12880 52% 399 9841 4% /var
- /dev/rz1e 241087 189244 27735 87% 5013 74859 6% /usr/pc_sys
- /dev/rz2a 93263 53558 30379 64% 3343 17137 16% /dlclient0
- /dev/rz2d 158559 147564 10995 93% 10 34806 0% /dlclient0/swap
- /dev/rz2e 203399 97962 85098 54% 2210 42846 5% /usr/pc_users
- /dev/rz2h 76735 36198 32864 52% 1692 16740 9% /usr/local
- /dev/rz2g 244039 182714 36922 83% 15310 39986 28% /usr/local/adm
- /dev/rz0e 494559 408838 36266 92% 22729 100151 18% /home
- /dev/rz2f 488367 403635 35896 92% 36108 72436 33% /home/staff
- /dev/rz0f 494559 432801 12303 97% 17781 105099 14% /depot
-
- which looks ok
-
- 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.
-