A problem has occurred with the File Alteration Monitor daemon (fam) which maintains a fixed length queue of events of file system activity. This queue of file activity has overflowed.
Possible causes include:
fam hung while accessing a down or unreachable NFS server.
An automounted file system was dismounted while fam was monitoring a large directory on that remote machine.
Note: If this problem is sporadic it is okay to ignore it.
If the problem frequently reoccurs, try the following steps:
make sure the remote host is up and reachable (if applicable.)
Edit the file /etc/inetd.comf and append “ -t 60” to the line that begins “sgi_fam/1” which will decrease the polling interval so fam will only poll NFS servers every 60 seconds for changes.
Or instead of the previous step, edit /etc/inetd.conf and append “ -l” to the line that begins “sgi_fam/1” which will prevent fam from polling all NFS filesystems.
An experienced System Administrator can increase the variable QSIZE in /var/sysgen/master.d/imon, reconfigure the kernel and reboot. This will increase the length of the queue of events.
Additional information about fam is available from man fam and the book Irix Admin: System Configuration and Operation, chapter 9.
If the problem persists, contact your System Administrator or your service provider.
For information on how to configure or disable System Alerts, click here.