Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Hi, Can anyone give any direction on this error.
"Operation Temporarily Disabled due to low memory"

RootFS shows 79.1MB free
Home shows 1.3GB free
MyDocs 25.9GB free
Memory Card 0B free

Memory card has been full for months.

Started the error just this week.
Originally Home was full. I checked and found that due to the old MfE contact duplication bug, I had once again many duplicate contacts despite clearing them out in Feb this year. In some cases I had over 60 copies of the same contact.

So I deleted MfE account and it purged a good amount of memory. I added it again and once again found duplicates. I checked on the PC and despite some MS outlook bugs meaning I could see the duplicates on some searches, but could see them on others. I exported the contact file and re imported it into Outlook and this cleared all the duplicates on the PC. I added the MfE account again to the N900 and all good, no duplicate contacts.

I then discovered that the old IMAP email bug meant that I had hundreds of email from one of my IMAP accounts hogging "Home" memory. So I deleted the account which gave back more memory. Deleted the email from the IMAP server and then added the IMAP account back.

So this results in the HOME memory being mostly free as stated earlier.

So if RootFS is not full and Home is far from full, what could be causing the low memory error?

I am hoping to avoid a reflash (yet again!) as I finally managed to get DocstoGo full version working again back in February.

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Run a
and check usage of inodes. iirc I had that once with thousands of small files using up inoodes but not filling up disk space.

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Hi Peter, I get "df: Invalid option --i" ?

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

It is not --i
but just -i

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Hi, Yes I typed df - ih and get the --i invalid response. I tried it directly on xterm and also via ssh (putty). same response. df -h works fine but it doesnt like -ih?

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Nokia-N900:~# df -ih
df: invalid option -- i
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso31+0cssu0) multi-call binary

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Strange, I am pretty sure it worked that way on N900, too (testing here with SFOS).
What about
df -i
without the h?

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Oh, maybe.
I had always enhanced busybox installed (your output looks like default busybox)?

Have a look with

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Yeah I think when I re-flashed this last time i ended up back on stock. Let me look at it some more. So my next question if it is Inodes , how to fix it? Just delete the files?

Re: Operation Temporarily disabled due to low memory
 

Enhanced Busybox fixed the -ih issue. Output:-

BusyBox v1.23.1 (Debian 1.23.1power2) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

gainroot
Root shell enabled


BusyBox v1.23.1 (Debian 1.23.1power2) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

Nokia-N900:~# df -ih
Filesystem Inodes Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 0 0 0 0% /
ubi0:rootfs 0 0 0 0% /
tmpfs 28.7K 52 28.7K 0% /tmp
tmpfs 28.7K 35 28.7K 0% /var/run
none 28.7K 721 28.0K 2% /dev
tmpfs 28.7K 3 28.7K 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /home
/home/opt 128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
128.0K 13.3K 114.7K 10% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 0 0 0 0% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 0 0 0 0% /media/mmc1
Nokia-N900:~#