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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ogicse!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!uuspew.uu.net!uunet!nwnexus!esca!dond Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: file table full !!! Message-ID: <1993Oct6.211536.2649@esca.com> From: dond@esca.com (Don Davis) Date: 6 Oct 93 21:15:36 GMT References: <28df8iINNamd@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <cjw.749764364@moo.acns.nwu.edu> Organization: ESCA Corporation, Bellevue WA Article-I.D.: esca.1993Oct6.211536.2649 Lines: 34 cjw@nwu.edu (Christopher Wargaski) writes: >cliffj@eng.umd.edu (Cliff Jones) writes: >>Hello World, >>I was working on a decstation and got the error FILE TABLE FULL. What does this mean >>??? Right now my system is running slowwwwwww. Any tip world >Ah hah! You too! I have a Sun Sparc 1+ running 4.1.1. I fear that it is >begin over loaded because I get those errors as well. This is what I have >surmised. >----------- >There is a finite amount of space in a table that the kernel maintains for >inodes. These inodes are directly related to file inodes--the kernel inode >contains the file inode plus some other stuff. I had the same problem (on a DECstation too) - mine caused by all this News stuff - too many small files! I dumped the disk, ran "newfs -b 4096 -c 8 -i 512 /dev/rrz0g cpr59" - this creates the new filesystem with a smaller than usual file- size parameter and allows for more cylinders, thus more inodes. Since the original problem was on a DECstation this should work for you too, Chris. I then reloaded the disk and have been happily NOT using all my inodes! -- | Don Davis dond@esca.com |I have nothing to say, | | ESCA Corporation, 11120 NE 33rd Place |but my company is not | | Bellevue, WA. 98004-1448 (206)822-6800 |responsible. | +----------------------------------------+------------------------+