Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:12:36 -0400 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: a lot of used inode in 2.1.x kernels |
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John Alvord wrote: > > Does controlling inodes also control dentry's?
Yes, reducing max_inodes also limits dentry growth proportionally. The number of dentries can exceed the number of inodes, as some dentries are "negative" (indicating that a file doesn't exist), but only by a proportion of the inode count.
So setting a sensible inode limit for small-memory machines helps with both inode and dentry memory.
Regards, Bill
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