Rule of thumb for /proc/sys/kernel/inode(&file)-max

Jeremy Domingue (jer@hughes.net)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:54:29 -0700

I was wondering what would be a good rule of thumb to follow for setting:

/proc/sys/kernel/inode-max,
/proc/sys/kernel/file-max, and
/proc/sys/vm/freepages

I was thinking those settings may have something to do with the fork
problems I've been having (?)

Currently they are set to the following:

[root ~]# tail /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max
12288
[root ~]# tail /proc/sys/kernel/file-max
4096
[root ~]# tail /proc/sys/vm/freepages
1048 1572 2096

I have 512MB of RAM on my system and 128MB of swap.... I've seen a lot of
the discussion about the low-memory machines having fork problems, but I
don't think that would apply in this case...

Thanks,

Jeremy Domingue
jer@hughes.net

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