VFS:no free inodes - contact linus

Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky (KDombrofsky@compuserve.com)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 05:14:48 -0400

Hello there,
i still have the problem that the inodes are growning.
I already made an echo 8192 >/proc/sys/kernel/inode-max
and echo 4096 >/proc/sys/kernel/file-max.
Now it takes a longer time until:

kernel:VFS: No free inodes - contact linus

I still have enough inodes on the disc.
When the machine starts i make a tail -f /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr and i
see
two numbers. The first is, i think, nr_inodes and the second is
nr_free_inodes.
My question is: When do these numbers increase ???
The first number seems to represent the the upper limit for nr_inodes, but
it is increasing dynamically up to
inode-max. After reaching inode-max and if the nr_free_inodes are under a
limit, i get this error message.
I see these numbers always growing but never become lower.

Kernel is 2.0.31-pre9
The machine imports with NFS a directory, i have databases running (1,2,3
or more) and squid, xntpd, innd.

Klaus-Peter Dombrofsky

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KDombrofsky@t-online.de

Beruflich:
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