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From: shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Inode fixes & single user woes : was (3b1 40meg disk woes: Help)
Message-ID: <180@labii.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 15:12:10 GMT
References: <3961@emory.mathcs.emory.edu} <17513@cup.portal.com> <2947@ihuxy.ATT.COM> <586@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <17733@cup.portal.com> <1989May5.150438.13740@ziebmef.uucp> <1762@gbmatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett)
Organization: Labyrinth II BBS - W. Trenton, NJ
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In article <1762@gbmatl.UUCP> gbm@gbmatl.UUCP (Root) writes:
>In article <1989May5.150438.13740@ziebmef.uucp} cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>}In article <17733@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>} Do these actually accumulate on the UNIX-PC? I try to keep my system
>
>I've run into the disappearing inode problem.  I shutdown to let fsck run
>and it cleared the problem up.
>

I do too, but it's awfully annoying.  The biggest margin I've had happened
last night when I came home to find 0 (count 'em 0) I-nodes free.  I
promptly killed off a few hundred files and ran an Expire (running News,
a BBS, 3 terminals, and other goodies on a 67 meg drive with 1.5 meg RAM,
v3.5 sys).  Expire ended, and I logged in again - Whoa!  18000 free blocks,
but only 238 free Inodes.  ("cant be right" sez I) - I reboot.

Fsck runs twice, and a lot of hemmin and hawin while it does so, and a 
quick login shows 18800 free blocks, and, lo and behold, 6200 Inodes.

I can handle a few inodes lost a day, but 6000???  That's half my table.
Is there any way to recover these things without shutting down???  I kind
of like having the high PID counts :-)

PS - Can anyone send me their cron entry for expire?  I have a shell I
run (Expshell) that runs 3 expires.  I've had hassles putting it in cron.
I'd like it to run every other day. (normally I do a 'nohup ksh Expshell
&')

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