[hobbit] out of inodes

Brodie, Kent brodie at mcw.edu
Fri Jan 5 19:19:18 CET 2007


I think solaris (by default) doesn't allocate nearly enough inodes as
(for example) ext3 inder linux.    I recall dealing with inode issues
under solaris 6 and 7 for an email server.   I agree- a royal pain......

On my system, a redhat box monitoring 122 servers and with nearly
150,000 history files, looks like this:

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda5            2562240   22092 2540148    1% /
/dev/sda1             127744      86  127658    1% /boot
none                  129323       1  129322    1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1            3842720  159572 3683148    5% /home
/dev/sda6             895840      48  895792    1% /tmp
/dev/sda3            2562240  151660 2410580    6% /usr
/dev/sda2            2562240   23386 2538854    1% /var

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Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
(414) 456-8590
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:42 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] out of inodes

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 01:26:52PM +0100, Longina Przybyszewska wrote:
> Hobbit (4.2 Solaris9) made the whole disk partition out of game
because of 
> "out of inodes" fail. 
> Disk partition is 3.8Gb , used 1.7 Gb, available 2.1Gb. 
> The directory /opt/hobbit/data/histlogs/ keeps huge amount of 
> historical data about each hobbit client.
> In my configuration I keep to the default values for history events.
> What shall I look after, and which variables should be tuned  to avoid

> that fail in the future?   

Hobbit never deletes history-logs by itself. You can use the
"trimhistory" utility to remove old logfiles, or you can just setup a
simple "find /home/hobbit/data/histlogs -mtime +90 | xargs rm" cronjob
to wipe all history-logs older than 90 days (or whatever you prefer).


Regards,
Henrik


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