On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:51:04 +0800 (WST), Matt Kemner
<kemner@live.networx.net.au> said:
> Hi all
> Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to me the 2.2.0pre6 kernel
> is leaking inodes like crazy..
> I keep increasing the number in /proc/sys/fs/inode-max (and file-max as
> well to keep the ratio the same as suggested in the documentation) but
> everytime I do, within hours it reaches that limit again..
The kernel caches inodes. If you increase the maximum size of the
inode table, then it will continue to grow. :)
However, for nr_inodes to exceed max_inodes, we must be failing to reap
the inode cache aggressively enough. What sort of load are you running
under?
The simple cure is not to increase inode-max. The kernel will still let
the inode cache grow above inode-max if it really neads to, but will
reap things much more aggressively above that limit.
--Stephen
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