I thank everyone for the answers, thanks! On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Manish Katiyar<mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Mulyadi > Santosa<mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Darvin Denmian<darvin.denmian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> My question is about tmpfs: >>> >>> -> If i increase the number of "inodes" avaliable in a tmpfs mounted >>> directory, will i have some performance impact? >>> >>> # Before increase number of inodes >>> df -i /media/queue >>> tmpfs 129384 4229 125155 4% /media/queue >>> >>> # After increase number of inodes >>> tmpfs 2048000 4229 2043771 1% /media/queue >>> >>> Sorry for my Brazilian English :( >> >> I think no. AFAIK, number of inodes just tell you how many file you >> can make (since one inode represents the metadata of a file). >> >> However, IMO, depending on average file size you will create there, >> having more inodes doesn't mean you can cram more files into your >> tmpfs based directory. So it's more like balancing between inodes, >> predicted number of file and storage size. By default, mount do this >> for you. > > Yes... In general increasing number of inodes shouldn't affect > performance unless you are going to pre-allocate space for that many > inodes on disk (things like expanding your bitmaps and other metadata > stuff). > > Thanks - > Manish > > >> >> CMIIW people >> >> -- >> regards, >> >> Mulyadi Santosa >> Freelance Linux trainer >> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with >> "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ >> >> > > > > -- > Thanks - > Manish > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
