Re: Day of panics - 2.0.32

Dancer (dancer@brisnet.org.au)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:11:15 +1000


Ahhh...It is entirely possible that we blew that limit under load.

Many thanks.
(And yes, I assumed the message was fairly outdated)

D

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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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