[8624] in Hotline Meeting
Re: gnode table full?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ylsul@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 16 12:35:10 1992
From: ylsul@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: rita@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: op@Athena.MIT.EDU, hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, alexp@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 16 Apr 92 11:07:13 -0400.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 12:34:52 EDT
Hi!
A gnode is the Ultrix equivalent of a vnode. According to jfc, its an
abstract data structure that allows the kernel to deal with differing
filsystems (like on a disk and something off the network).
A full table is indicates that there are too many active files.
This can be caused by a program that doesn't close files when its done
with them, system error, or too much load.
It is possible to reconfigure the kernel with a larger table size, but
I don't know if we'd want to support something like that. In any case,
code cut is coming, so there aren't the resources (at least here) to
work on that.
-y
