SUMMARY: excessive number of files reported by showfsets

From: <emanuele.lombardi_at_casaccia.enea.it>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:45:08 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

thanks to:
        "Haesaerts, Corinne" <Corinne.Haesaerts_at_compaq.com>
        "Dr. Thomas.Blinn_at_Compaq.com" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
        Larry Scott USG <scott_at_soak2.zk3.dec.com>

I tried to identify the processes which filled-up /var of I-nodes, but I
did'nt succeded. I tried using try
        fuser -d /var
as suggested by Larry, but without any result. So I had to
reboot the system (sigh!) as suggested by our doctor, Tom.
        
Tom Blinn wrote as follows:
        Use the "df -i" command to find out how many inodes you have free in
        the filesystem. If you have lots of jobs that have created files in
        the /var/tmp directory, for example, and the files have been deleted
        but the processes that created them are still running (lsof or fuser
        may provide some clues), that can exhaust the inodes but you can't
        find the files. Sometimes the ONLY cure is a reboot.

Emanuele

P.s. original post is after the .signature

-- 
$$$ Emanuele Lombardi
$$$ mail:  AMB-GEM-CLIM ENEA Casaccia
$$$        I-00060 S.M. di Galeria (RM)  ITALY
$$$ mailto:emanuele.lombardi_at_casaccia.enea.it
$$$ tel	+39 06 30483366 fax	+39 06 30483591
$$$
$$$                                |||
$$$                                \|/  ;_;
$$$ What does a process need        |   /"\
$$$ to become a daemon ?            |   \v/
$$$                                 |    | 
$$$ - a fork                        o---/!\---
$$$                                 |   |_|
$$$                                 |  _/ \_
$$$* Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is user friendly.
$$$  It's just very particular about who it makes friends with.
$$$* Computers are not intelligent, but they think they are. 
$$$* True programmers never die, they just branch to an odd address
$$$* THIS TRANSMISSION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY 100% RECYCLED ELECTRONS
ORIGINAL post:
Dear friends,
after a long while, here I'm back asking for your help!
T64 5.1 2nd patch running on a ES40  Advfs V5
while installing products using setld I get the following message:
	.... 
	Checking file system space required to install selected subsets:
	fitset:
	file system /var needs 103 more inodes to install the software specified.
	setld: 
	There is not enough file system space to install all the subsets 
	you have selected. Please press RETURN to start another selection.
I cleaned as possible /var and /usr (they belong to the same domain),
but the error occurs again. So I did:
	 showfsets usr_domain
usr
        Id           : 39363f99.00090e00.1.8001
        Files        :    37625,  SLim=        0,  HLim=        0
        Blocks (512) :  1966836,  SLim=        0,  HLim=        0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off 
var
        Id           : 39363f99.00090e00.2.8001
        Files        : 17179876114,  SLim=        0,  HLim=        0
        Blocks (512) :   146632,  SLim=        0,  HLim=        0
        Quota Status : user=off group=off 
and as you can see I have a wrong huge number as Files in the var fset.
I did 
	 verify -a usr_domain
	 
without any error, but the huge number in showfsets of var still remain.
I did'nt reboot the machine (as I usually do when strange thinks
happens) since the server is running many batch jobs.
Can you , please, help me?
thanks a lot from Italy,
Emanuele

Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 15:45:12 NZST