From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 11 20:36:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA22690 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 20:36:33 -0800 Received: from gateway.net.hk (root@gateway.hk.linkage.net [202.76.7.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA22685 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 1995 20:36:27 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by gateway.net.hk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA21993; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:29:47 +0800 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:29:47 +0800 (HKT) From: System Administrator To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd crash after inode depletion.. In-Reply-To: <199511070233.UAA12359@solaria.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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