gnode: table is full

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Sun Mar 10 13:41:01 AEST 1991


In article <2663 at shodha.enet.dec.com> alan at shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
> In article <6081 at amc-gw.amc.com>, stewartc at amc-gw.amc.com (Stewart Castaldi) writes:
> > Under Ultrix 3.1(?) what are gnodes and how do I make the table larger?
> 
> 	Gnodes are our version of Sun's vnodes.  It's a handy
> 	mechanism for supporting mutiple file systems.  The
> 	gnode table is sized based on the values of "maxusers"
> 	and the size of the proc table and text table.

Note that you also get an "out of gnodes" message when all the disk
inodes in a filesystem have been exhausted, which is a different
problem altogether.  This can be verified with "df -i" and (sometimes)
fixed by playing with newfs/mkfs parameters. 
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