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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