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Article #4490"gnode: table is full" and "File table overflow"
From: Ross A Macintyre
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:43
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:43
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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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!scsing.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!batcomputer!rpi!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!raz 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