[hobbit] out of inodes

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Jan 5 17:42:23 CET 2007


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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