Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 07:40:57 -0800 (PST) | From | Liem Bahneman <> | Subject | Re: what does /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr represent? |
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It's a 40G RAID5 array (DPT hardware) composed of 10 4.5G disks.
Large web server (810 virtual domains)...
no msdos stuff going on, though I do have the support enabled...
its now looking like this:
% cat /proc/sys/kernel/inode-* 131072 93568 93186
I noticed that rsync caused it to rise quite a bit (I do a nightly rsync of the files on the disk, 1.1million file), about 50k are actually updated/copied per night. But inode-nr never seems to decrease.
- liem
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:40:45 -0500 > From: Bill Hawes <whawes@star.net> > To: Liem Bahneman <roland@cobaltgroup.com> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: what does /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr represent? > > Liem Bahneman wrote: > > > > I understand /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr, but not inode-nr. What does this > > info mean? (two values) and does it ever decrease? Mine's hovering at > > about 90000. > > > > I think my VFS "no more inode" problem was related to having too small of > > an inode-max, so I've since increased it to 131072. > > To follow up on my earlier reply, are you by any chance using msdos (fat, vfat) > a lot? The 2.0.xx msdos code has inode leaks that are fixed in 2.1.xx, and if > you're doing a lot of renaming operations, you may be leaking massive numbers of > inodes. > > If someone wants to fix this in the 2.0.xx tree, do a diff on msdos/namei.c as > relates to the handling of the linked and depend inodes. > > Regards, > Bill >
============================================================================ Liem Bahneman roland@cobaltgroup.com Senior Systems Administrator http://www.cobaltgroup.com/~roland The Cobalt Group (206) 269-6363 x300 Seattle, Washington F(206) 269-6350
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