From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 07:18:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CB2106566C for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:18:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterpub2@aboutsupport.com) Received: from dns.msk.asap.bg (dns.msk.asap.bg [78.90.206.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119288FC08 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:18:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterpub2@aboutsupport.com) Received: from [10.30.1.106] (unknown [95.87.202.193]) by dns.msk.asap.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C59939819 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:18:35 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4A6AB1C2.4060500@aboutsupport.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:18:26 +0300 From: Peter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: running out of inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:18:36 -0000 Hello, We have a strange issue with one of our machines. We have a busy site on it with a lot content and cache files - all of these a lot small files. We started to run out inodes..... [root@pistolcontent-lb3 /]# df -hi Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/aacd0s1a 496M 382M 74M 84% 25402 40388 39% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% 0 0 100% /dev /dev/aacd0s1e 496M 2.7M 453M 1% 99 65691 0% /tmp /dev/aacd0s1f 123G 95G 18G 84% 16623996 27266 100% /usr /dev/aacd0s1d 4.8G 62M 4.4G 1% 1425 658029 0% /var What is the best way to handle it ? Thanks in advance. Peter Zyumbilev