no free inodes

[Dan Pelleg]

Perica Veljanovski <ezhe at euro.net.mk> writes:

> > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 08:48, Perica Veljanovski wrote:
> > > allsow, somethimes when I reboot it shoes: "no inodes free"
> > > So, what seems to be the problem here?
> > 
> > Your /var filesystem is basically out of files. This doesn't necessarily
> > mean that file system is full. It's just out of file information
> > structures (inodes).
> > 
> > This is usually caused by some process not removing it's temporary
> > files. You could remove them yourself!
> > 
> > If too many temporary files are created by squid, you should change
> > caching options to lower number of cache directories/files, or reformat
> > your filesystem with different options [see newfs(8)]
> > -- 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Well, squid is logging into /usr/....../squid/var/ so it could not be
> squid. Actualy, only softwawre that comes with FreeBSD logs into /var
> 
> Here is the df:
> -------------
> IBM:/#df -h
> Filesystem                 Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a                126M    46M    70M    39%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f                252M    34K   232M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1g                5.1G   2.8G   1.9G    59%    /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e                252M    95M   137M    41%    /var
> procfs                     4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
> ---------------
> Doese /usr, /var, /tmp have the same inode pool, or are they separate,
> meaning: different inodes for /var, different for /usr?
> 

Separate. They are a resource of each filesystem.

> So the question is: How can I find out which program doesnt clean/flush
> the inodes, and is there a way to see how many inodes there are?
> 

df -i will show you how many there are and how many your'e using. As for
the program which doesn't clean the inodes, that would be the same program
that creates lots of files.

-- 

  Dan Pelleg