Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:54:42 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: what does /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr represent? |
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Liem Bahneman wrote: > > 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.
The inode-nr will never decrease because inode memory is never freed. But inodes should be reused, and your system should stabilize to a value that's sufficient for your operations. So if inode-nr keeps going up it would appear that something is not freeing the inode counts as it should.
Regards, Bill
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