Hi Reid, As you ask for clues, here goes my $0.02! This message comes from $KERNEL_SRC/fs/inode.c when the kernel tries to get more inode. Browsing the file I found a #define MAX_INODE (16384). What's your number? Maybe you can try increase this and see if the problem persist. You can see and maybe modify the /proc/sys/fs/inode-max. Mine (2.2.14) shows 16384, too! Just a clue!
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