Hi,

My solaris server [SunOS 5.9] giving serious problem,
When I tried to open more than one file in vi editor it prompts an error saying "No space left on device"
I can open only one file at a time.
I checked memory it seems OK to me

#vmstat
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s6 sd sd -- in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 8113176 1826032 150 1182 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 341 876 849 8 4 88

#df
/ (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 ):21058362 blocks 1326822 files
/usr (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s4 ):10982090 blocks 1068325 files
/proc (/proc ): 0 blocks 29754 files
/etc/mnttab (mnttab ): 0 blocks 0 files
/dev/fd (fd ): 0 blocks 0 files
/var (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 ):16233726 blocks 1 files
/var/run (swap ):13756016 blocks 398495 files
/tmp (swap ):13756016 blocks 398495 files
/SA (/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 ):118255190 blocks 8384667 files
/home (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s5 ): 2385904 blocks 291969 files


please can anyone tell me what is the cause.

Thanks..

check the /var filesystem! vi uses /var/tmp for temporary files.....

I checked /var filesystem .. by memory there is more space left on it
also checked /var/tmp, it contains approximetely 323450 files

delete unused files... looks like you are running out of inodes!

check it with: