Re: what does /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr represent?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:00:35 -0500

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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.

Something is very wrong on your system if you need to set inode-max that high.
It appears that something you're using is causing an inode leak.

Regards,
Bill

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