Re: [Summary-Talk] Open log file errors

["Rick 'Kaenath' Knecht" <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an update:

the vnodes were at 99.9 %. System reported 7132 of 7136 being used.

I increased the nodes throu the prompt to 20000 (w/o quitting summary) and
let the machine continue to run. when it came time to run the logs, same
problem. Quit summary, used vnodes jumped to 8400 appx. restarted summary,
all is well. Will keep an eye on it, and report.

notes:
1. summary have been able to ready the files after the vnode bump w/o
restarting?
2, as recommended in the http://summary.net/talk/200310/msg00025.html
thread, I went to check out the file at
/System/Library/StartupItems/SystemTuning/SystemTuning. the only info in
here is:

#!/bin/sh
exit 0

Is there somewhere in the server the 'addvnodes=512'  might be hidden?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Logan" <jefftalk@insideout.com>
To: <summary-talk@lists.summary.net>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Open log file errors


> >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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