From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 11 13:16:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25484 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25478 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 13:16:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA18684; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:11:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602112111.OAA18684@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: can't free vnode To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 14:11:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: nwestfal@Vorlon.odc.net, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602110824.SAA27753@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 11, 96 06:54:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is Terry becoming too specific about the nature of the problem 8) > In your case, you can check the number of inodes free on your news > filesystem(s) and monitor your swap usage carefully. If any of these > seem low, it's likely that they'll contribute to the problem that Terry > has described. Actually, the 5-line hack I described will kludge around the problem. It is not a fix, it is a kludge. Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't, but kludges offend my sense of aesthetics, so I give long explanations of "you could do this, but it's not *right*". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.