inode:table is full

[ken stahlhut]

Had a user who changed the size of the swap and on reboot gets the error screaming accross his terminal inode:table is full.

Any help is appreciated.

Ken Stahlhut

[Fabrice Meynard]

Hello,

you have now to increase ninode kernel parameter.

Fabrice

[nancy rippey]

It appears that you will need to increase ninode. A description of all Hp kernel paramters can be found at
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparam.Ninode.html

Hope this helps.

nancy

[Pete Randall]

Ken,

It seems odd that a change to swap would cause the inode table to fill. The obvious answer, as stated, is to increase ninode, build a new kernel, and re-boot (use SAM, it's easier). But I have to wonder, what did this user do to "change swap"?

Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Ken, I agree with Pete, I think the user modified SOMETHING ELSE. Change the root passwd and keep them from screwing with their machine.

live free or die
harry

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
You have to bump up NINODE value.You can use sam for that.
Just increase the value of MAXUSERS
which will in turn increase the NFILE, NPROC and NINODE parameters.

Thanks

[ken stahlhut]

I was unable to get to maxusers to chnage this parameter. However i found out that when you run SAM and change the system kernel, a backup copy of the kernel and system file is made. Simply by renaming the old
files and rebooting we are back to shape. They reside in /stand and are
called vmunix and system. When you edit the kernel as to change swap space, the copy is made called vmunix.prev and system.prev.

Thank you for the help.

Ken Stahlhut

[Pete Randall]

Ken,

You're welcome but please remember to assign points.

Pete