Hey, Given what I can see on our primary collector running ext4 (2Tb/134 million inodes) it appears it's assigned 64 inodes per 1mb of storage available. If you're similar I'm guessing your average size per cap files is < 16kb if you've run out of inodes before space.
You can override inode count when the file system is formatted (mke2fs -N), this may come with other dangers though, I'm not a filesystem expert. If you can shift your data somewhere else temporarily, reformat and restore this might be an option for you. If you can live with managing older flows outside nfsen (kinda defeats the point though), and you don't need instant access to the older captures regularly (i.e you're just keeping it for compliance) you could just tar them up and delete the individual ones off disk. Otherwise, you could merge devices into fewer (same collector for many devices), you'll lose the ability to reference them individually which may be a huge issue for you. Depends on your use case, per layer collector may not be a bad option, for example we run a Boarder, Core, Aggregation and Edge collectors. Given we have over 1k edge devices which can sflow, an individual profile per device would be crazy (and a royal PIA for adhoc monitoring). I'm guessing the least preferable choice is to reduce your retention period to fit within your inodes, 1 file/5 min/device. Remember to leave a few for directory structure and any other misc FS data (does meta data consume inodes?). Out of interest, what is your file system capacity, max inodes and filesystem? Cheers, P. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Nfsen-discuss mailing list Nfsen-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfsen-discuss
