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

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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