[xymon] linux disk space issue

[Nordquist, Daniel]

Ok, I'm running openSuse 11.1 and I'm not finding a way to increase my inodes without doing something drastic like rebuilding from scratch.  Lots of freebsd info on the web to increase maxfiles but nothing specific for openSuse.

Can you help?

Thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffcoat, Al
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:25 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] linux disk space issue

Maybe your Unix team can help next time :)




-----Original Message-----
From: Nordquist, Daniel
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:18 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [xymon] linux disk space issue

Yep, that's it.  I learned something new today.

Thank you very much!


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kauffman [mailto:tommyk66 at newsguy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:52 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] linux disk space issue

On Wednesday 03 November 2010 02:16:53 pm Nordquist, Daniel wrote:
> I know this is not related to hobbit but I had a problem where my web
> pages stopped updating and histlogs stopped writing.
>
> I checked my server disk space with df -h and it showed 3.6gb free on
> my root filesystem where hobbit lives.
>

Try df -i - it sounds like you may have run out of i-nodes.

> I could not run a man page because it couldn't create a temp file.

One of the reasons I never ran hobbit/xymon in the root filesystem - xymon can create a very large number of small files, and this can eat i-nodes faster than it eats disk space. Depending on OS and local preference, I'd suggest making an /opt or /usr//local filesystem with a higher number of i-nodes per block and run xymon in that filesystem.

> Anyone have any idea why this might have happened?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan


Tom
>

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