Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: gnode: table is full Message-ID: <19716@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 11 Mar 91 09:39:28 GMT References: <6081@amc-gw.amc.com> <2663@shodha.enet.dec.com> <19682@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2671@shodha.enet.dec.com> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 In article <2671@shodha.enet.dec.com> alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes: > In article <19682@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes: > > In article <2663@shodha.enet.dec.com> alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes: > > > > > > [ Wherein I explain what a gnode is. ] > > > > [ George reasonably points out that the message "out of gnodes" can > > can come from a disk that's out of gnodes, as opposed to the kernel > > table running out. ] > > I haven't seen it on a V4.x system, but sometimes on a V3.x > systems a disk that goes offline would eventually cause the > "out of gnodes" message to be printed. So, broken hardware > can also cause it. Well I came real close to mentioning that, but then disk problems just aren't supposed to happen, are they. I think the last time I saw it (Ultrix 3.1C-0) is when my HSC decided to run some in-line tests and the HSC driver couldn't figure out what was going on. BTW, don't you thing the message for out of "gnodes" on disk ought to be changed back to "inodes"? They're only really gnodes when they're in memory with all that baggage linked in, and all the FFS/filesystem related documentation still talks about inodes... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)