Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Gnode table full
Keywords: gnode table overflow
Message-ID: <14471@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Sep 90 19:58:55 GMT
References: <2731@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2731@cernvax.UUCP> dietrich@cernvax.UUCP (dietrich wiegandt) writes:
> Hardware: VAX8530
> Software: ULTRIX 3.1
> 
> recently our system got into an almost unusable state complaining

I've seen gnode table full messages when a disk drive goes offline or otherwise
wacky.  Once this happened when a mangment type was pushing buttons, several
times when the HSC decided to run ILDISK (in-line error analysis) due to drive
errors.

The HSC support works nicely, but doesn't seem all that rugged.

> We have a rather special environment with many machines from different
> manufacturers and lots of NFS mounts (including possibly this user's files)
> to remote machines going on.

It seems possible that you might see the same kind of problem if you have
lots of NFS mounts and run into network delays or problems, but this is
only guessing....

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