dietrich@cernvax.UUCP (dietrich wiegandt) (09/14/90)
Hardware: VAX8530 Software: ULTRIX 3.1 Hello, recently our system got into an almost unusable state complaining that the gnode table was full. Running pstat -i revealed that in our table of 1392 entries 875 entries belonged to the same user, and the rest did not suffice to run a decent service for the remaining logged on 60 or so users. The user with all these busy entries in the gnode table was NOT logged on, and there was no process on the system belonging to him. Of course he claimed to be totally innocent. Any idea by what manipulation we might have got in such a state? We don't know for how long we have been running with a gnode table threatening to overflow, so the problem may have arisen days before we noticed it. We have a rather special environment with many machines from different manufacturers and lots of NFS mounts (including possibly this user's files) to remote machines going on. Any hints would be very much appreciated. Dietrich Wiegandt CERN CN Division