On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 20:43:49 +1000, Dancer <dancer@brisnet.org.au> said:
> Within the next hour, number three and number four go down almost
> simultaneously with: "VFS: No free inodes - contact Linus"
This is a rather misleading message which we really ought to change!
That's a configuration issue. The kernel keeps a soft limit on the
number of inodes to guard against denial-of-service problems. The
values can be increased at run-time. You can read the current limits on
file descriptors and inodes by `cat`ing /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr and
.../inode-nr, and you can `echo` new limit values into .../inode-max and
file-max.
--Stephen
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