Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: VFS: No free inodes - contact Linus | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:06:57 +0000 (GMT) |
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> We started seeing this problem when we started running Netscape's FastTrack > server on www.caldera.com. It was configured to cache aggressively and soaked
Isnt www.caldera.com a Linux server. Can I take this as an unintentional revalation about upcoming software ? This is actually a far more interesting point than anything related to the bug 8)
> 1) Why can't the kernel handle this condition more gracefully? Is it a "minor > matter of coding" or is there a fundamental reason the kernel must fail > so abruptly when out of inodes...
The system is set up so that you run out of files before you can run out of inodes. It is a "cannot happen". Unless of course you up the max files on your box without upping the inodes.
Alan
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