Re: [Summary-Talk] Open log file errors

[Jeff Logan <jefftalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On 11/24/03 12:07 PM Jeff Logan (jefftalk@insideout.com) wrote:
>
>>>There are now three serious problems in OS X that I have been unable to
>>>find work arounds for and for which Apple has not been very responsive.
>>>If there is any way you can try running Summary on another kind of
>>>machine, I suspect that your problems will go away.
>>
>>I two am having this same problem and have switched to the command
>>line version of Summary for OS X and have not had this problem since.
>>Jason and I have gone around and around on this issue already.
>>
>>Jason could you post the three serious problems?
>
>They have all come up on this list before, though they have not all been
>fully described here.
>
>
>2) OS X does not allocate enough vnodes (an internal system resource) for
>some situations. Running out of vnodes can cause a great number of
>different errors, ranging from the inability to open log files all the
>way up to kernel panics. This causes problems with both versions of
>Summary running under OS X, and with any other applications running on
>the machine. Normally a vnode problem will get worse the longer it has
>been since the machine was rebooted.

Thanks for all of the descriptions, when it comes to the vnode issue 
you have posted a work around, but I have found that OS X just does 
not release vnodes at all.  My server was using 16,000 after a 
reboot.  I moved this number up to 100,000 just for testing purposes 
after a month I was at that level.

What can be done about this problem?  Where can we as users complain to 
Apple?

Thanks,
Jeff lOgan



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