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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....



  greg pavlov
  pavlov@fstrf.org