Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:46:17 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: mkc@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu Subject: 3.0-R server /var running out of inodes (not a usenet question) Message-ID: <200005091546.LAA73551@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu>
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This is mystifying. I have a server running 3.0-R that serves DNS, ntp, NIS, NFS, sendmail, imap, pop, majordomo, DHCP, and syslog. That might seem like a lot but the user base is small (less than 100) and the machine count is something less than 256. NFS serving is minor for this machine. Most NFS load is on a different system. The cpu load is normally very low and the machine just hums along, usually. The strange things is that every once in a blue moon this system goes belly-up with the message "/var out of inodes" on the console. After rebooting it looks like this: # df -i -t ufs Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 99183 20053 71196 22% 1015 24071 4% / /dev/da0s1e 992239 548 912312 0% 36 249818 0% /tmp /dev/da0s1f 1984479 834699 991022 46% 102187 397779 20% /usr /dev/da0s1g 1984479 536817 1288904 29% 9222 490744 2% /var Note that /var only has 2% of inodes in use! Hunting through my log files I don't find any clues suggesting what happened. Has anyone seen anything like this before or have any thoughts what the cause might be? It happens so infrequently that I don't get many chances to try to debug it, and when it does the priority is to get it back online as quickly as possible being that it's a critical resource. (Everything but ntp and the e-mail services are redundantly served by other machines, but of course panic sets in quickly when people can't check their e-mail once per minute!) If I'm not right here when it happens, someone else reboots it and I don't even get to see the console! -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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