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
>
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