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Subject2.1.124+ /proc/sys/fs/inode-max wrong?
G'day smiley happy people :)

I have this problem with 2.1.124, and both .125 pre-patches.
It seems that a lot of programs are refusing to function as they complain
about "too many open files" and so forth. Now I know this is rubbish as
the same programs happen to function fine with 2.0.35, and 2.1.119.
I can reproduce it with Debian's apt, Netscape Navigator 4.06, and XF86_S3.

Now what I think seems to be the problem is the default setting of
/proc/sys/fs/inode-max. The documentation from Rik says that this setting
should be 3-4 times greater than file-max. file-max is of course set to
4096 by default, and to my surprise, so is inode-max. Increasing inode-max
to 16384 seems to get rid of the "too many open files" problem.

What's the story here?

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Matt

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