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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.software.b,comp.sources.bugs,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Out of inodes while unbatching news
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <1990Jul03.111044.17761@virtech.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 90 11:10:44 GMT
References: <586@fnx.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <586@fnx.UUCP> del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) writes:
>
>    [story of running out of inodes deleted]
>
>The details: The system is a Mylex 20 Mhz w/64k cache, 8 MB memory, ATI
>VGA wonder.  I have unbatched news with no serial ports installed in the
>system, same problem.  I have tried a DTC RLL card, WD 7000 FASST SCSI card,
>Adaptec 1542 SCSI, and all have shown the same problem.  I am currently
>running ISC Unix.  I have stripped down the system to just the video card
>and the disk controller to try to find this problem.

The only pertinent portion of this is the Operating system and you don't 
specify the version.  

This inode thing is a known bug that as far as I know was fixed in version
2.0.2 of 386/ix (I have been running news on a partition without running
out of inodes for a year).

There is a binary patch for microport unix that is reputed to work correctly
for 386/ix.  If you want to try it, send me email & I will send it to you.

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