From: raz@cs.hw.ac.uk (Ross A Macintyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: "gnode: table is full" and "File table overflow"
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:43:36 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Recently errors like these have been reported on our 5000/200.
These errors are reported by users and don't seem to appear in the error logger.
This was the output after "ls -l":

*bug.chk.sgi: File table overflow
*yp_pass.chk: File table overflow
*extra_src: File table overflow
*total 546
*getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
*getsvc: stat failed: File table overflow
*getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
*getsvc: stat failed: File table overflow
*98797    4 -rwxr-xr-x  1 410      15           3228 Mar 10  1992 MANIFEST*
*getsvc: stat of /etc/svc.conf failed
*and so on....
*

I notice from the error logger that it says it is out of gnodes
"uerf -R" produced output like this:
						  uerf version 4.2-011 (16)


********************************* ENTRY     1. *********************************

----- EVENT INFORMATION -----

EVENT CLASS                             OPERATIONAL EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  250.     ASCII MSG 
SEQUENCE NUMBER               1842.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Wed Jan 27 14:23:22 1993 WET
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      thor 
SYSTEM ID                 x82020220     HW REV: x20
                                        FW REV: x2
                                        CPU TYPE: R2000A/R3000 
PROCESSOR TYPE                          KN02/R3000 
MESSAGE                                 gnode: table is full 

********************************* ENTRY     2. *********************************

Can someone tell me what is needing done? I suspect the kernel might need 
rebuilding but what changes need to be made? What table needs to be made bigger?
Or is one of the file systems needing rebuilt? df -i -l gives

Filesystem   Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     inodes   inodes   %            
node         kbytes   used     free     used  used     free     used Mounted on
/dev/rz1a      19975   11758    6220    65%      923    7269    11%  /
/dev/rz1g     238647  185478   29305    86%     8768   71104    11%  /usr
/dev/rz1d      29743   13889   12880    52%      399    9841     4%  /var
/dev/rz1e     241087  189244   27735    87%     5013   74859     6%  /usr/pc_sys
/dev/rz2a      93263   53558   30379    64%     3343   17137    16%  /dlclient0
/dev/rz2d     158559  147564   10995    93%       10   34806     0%  /dlclient0/swap
/dev/rz2e     203399   97962   85098    54%     2210   42846     5%  /usr/pc_users
/dev/rz2h      76735   36198   32864    52%     1692   16740     9%  /usr/local
/dev/rz2g     244039  182714   36922    83%    15310   39986    28%  /usr/local/adm
/dev/rz0e     494559  408838   36266    92%    22729  100151    18%  /home
/dev/rz2f     488367  403635   35896    92%    36108   72436    33%  /home/staff
/dev/rz0f     494559  432801   12303    97%    17781  105099    14%  /depot

which looks ok

Thanks in advance,

Ross

PS The only real change to the system in the last few days is that I added 
automount maps to Yellow Pages.