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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:29:47 +0800 (HKT)
From:      System Administrator <root@gateway.net.hk>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd crash after inode depletion..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951112122335.12934A-100000@gateway.net.hk>
In-Reply-To: <199511070233.UAA12359@solaria.sol.net>

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On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Joe Greco wrote:

> My news server (second latest SNAP release) just freaked.  After the upgrade
> fiasco this weekend that saw my news system down for about 36 hours, some of
> the disks are running a little too full.  I got a warning and then when I
> tried to telnet in,
> 
> Nov  6 19:56:59 hummin /kernel: uid 8 on /news/.0: out of inodes
> Nov  6 19:57:00 hummin /kernel: uid 8 on /news/.0: out of inodes
> Nov  6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel: panic: free vnode isn't
> Nov  6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel:
> Nov  6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel: syncing disks... 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up
> Nov  6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> Nov  6 20:10:17 hummin /kernel: Rebooting...
> 
> Since I was coming in from remote, I cannot say for sure that my telnet-in
> tickled the strange panic (I never got any connect message, etc) but it is
> almost precisely the time I tried telnetting in.
> 
> Just in case it matters to anyone...
> 
> ... Joe
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joe Greco - Systems Administrator			      jgreco@ns.sol.net
> Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI			   414/342-4847
> 
I do not believe it is bug.  news uses *lots* of small files.  A news 
filesystem should be newfs for smaller blocks and more inodes.  see man 
newfs -b and -i
jbeukema




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