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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: "gnode: table is full" and "File table overflow"
- Message-ID: <1996@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:37:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.144336.14130@cs.hw.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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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
-
- I would guess that you are running out of i/gnodes. Reconfiguring your disk
- to allow for more of them (smaller cylinder size, "-c" parameter in newfs,
- or fewer bytes per inode, "-i" parameter) will USUALLY do the trick. But
- note that most newfs parameters have rather limited ranges of possible
- settings that the man page doesn't bother telling you about.
-
- A grubby alternative: modify the configuration file by increasing "maxusers"
- to some godawful amount, say 196 (196 ? why not ? As good a number as any,
- and one which I personally know to be "legal"), which hopefully increases
- the size of kernel structures sufficiently to make the problem go away. You
- might want to do this anyway, it's a useful palliative all around, like
- wearing garlic around your neck to keep the vampires away....
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-
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
-