Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:14:38 -0700 From: "Alex Franks" <Alex.Franks@SoleTechnology.com> To: "Philip Radford" <phil@chycor.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left Message-ID: <40BF70F735DE5643AF18FA29A17C253C07E627FE@core.soletechnology.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Philip Radford Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left Hi All, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and have recently received the following message on our box for the /var partiton. No inodes left. I have checked the statistics and there was an apache httpd log which was maxing out the usable space. I have since removed this file and the available space has dropped to over 50%. However I still get the 'no inodes left' message even though I have freed the space. Does anyone know how I can get the inodes to be freed up on the /var partition. Thanks in advance. Regards Phil. Hey all, I recently had the *exact* same problem on a 4.11-STABLE box. Plenty of disc space on /var but out of inodes. Also, the system was incredibly sluggish despite showing loads of 0.00 across the board in uptime and top. This problem coincided with a LOT of sleeping and zombie processes. I had a cron job running every 5 minutes and couldn't even edit the crontab because of the lack of inodes. I ended up just wiping out all the directories under /var/db/pkg (since these can easily be downloaded again) and shut off the cron jobs that were spawning new procs. Turns out (part of?) the problem was qmail had a very large amount of messages in its queue. Once I flushed qmail's queue and the messages were sent out, the system returned to normal. Hope this helps you or someone else.
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