Re: [Summary-Talk] Open log file errors

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

Follow-up: machine's been up for three days: sometime in the last 36 hours
the problem has shown up again. vnodes read ok: 12000 avail(ish) 5500 
used.
any other suggestions?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Linhart" <jason@summary.net>
To: <summary-talk@lists.summary.net>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Open log file errors


> On 11/24/03 2:19 PM Rick 'Kaenath' Knecht (postmaster@helmboy.com) wrote:
>
> >notes:
> >1. summary have been able to ready the files after the vnode bump w/o
> >restarting?
>
> If you are asking if other people have had this problem solved by
> changing the number of vnodes, then yes some people have had the problem
> solved by doing that. If upping the vnodes manually, without rebooting,
> does not temporarily solve your problem then you are experiencing a
> different problem, not related to vnodes.
>
> >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?
>
> Starting in 10.2.7 (or around then, I forget the exact version), Apple
> moved this setting to a different place. In newer versions of Mac OS X
> you need to look in /etc/rc for the lines:
>
> # System tuning
> sysctl -w kern.maxvnodes=$(echo $(sysctl -n hw.physmem) '33554432 / 512 *
> 1024 +p'|dc)
>
> (There should be two lines, the e-mail system might have wrapped the
> second line to make three) and change the 512 there to another number
> (like 1024). The 512 in the original version is the number of vnodes
> allocated for each 32 Meg of RAM installed in the machine. (Alternatively
> you can change the 1024 to a much higher number. The 1024 in the original
> is the number of vnodes to start with, in addition to adding in the 512
> for each 32 Meg.)
>
> Keep in mind that Apple may move this setting again. You need to check
> for this each time you install a system update.
>
> Jason
>
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