Hi again Perhaps I should just state he original issue (in case I am barking up the wrong tree by looking at file-max/inode-max). The programmer wlil want to do some tracking. the tracking will take place every month.. So we are looking at one main root dir, 12 subdirs (one for each month), and up to 1.5 million files generated per month. What is the proper way to do this? Thanks! Ben Yau > > Hi there Linux and kernel gurus... > > > I was curious about a few things. > > 1) What is the theoretical and practical max for file-max and inode-max? > I'm assuming it is related to either disk capacity or RAM. Also, did > inode-max go away at a certain kernel revision? A user wants to set > something up with reporting that will eventually generate around 15million > files or so. One google/usenet article i found related it to physical > memory. If RAM is N > > N/4*256 = file-max > file-max*4 = inode-max > > Both seem a bit short to me for theoretical max. (not the > file-max*4=inode-max part but the N/4*256=file-max part) > > 2) is there a reason inode-max doesn't exist anymore? > > 3) How do the below numbers relate for file-max (and indirectly > inode-max I > guess) and the output for df -i ? > > [byau@testmachine fs]$ more /proc/sys/fs/file-max > :::::::::::::: > /proc/sys/fs/file-max > :::::::::::::: > 8192 > [byau@testmachine fs]$ df -i > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 64512 9450 55062 15% / > /dev/sda1 512 35 477 7% /boot > /dev/sda3 256512 81440 175072 32% /usr > /dev/sda5 64512 859 63653 1% /var > /dev/sda7 26208 12 26196 0% /tmp > /dev/sda8 257280 50650 206630 20% /home > [byau@testmachine fs]$ > > > Thanks!! > Ben Yau > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
