The code for inode-max was deleted long time ago (< Linux-2.6.12-rc2). Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst index 596f84a1748d..5a99e37b5000 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs: - dquot-nr - file-max - file-nr -- inode-max - inode-nr - inode-state - nr_open @@ -136,18 +135,12 @@ enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit. -inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state +inode-nr & inode-state --------------------------------- As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures dynamically, but can't free them yet. -The value in inode-max denotes the maximum number of inode -handlers. This value should be 3-4 times larger than the value -in file-max, since stdin, stdout and network sockets also -need an inode struct to handle them. When you regularly run -out of inodes, you need to increase this value. - The file inode-nr contains the first two items from inode-state, so we'll skip to that file... @@ -156,8 +149,7 @@ The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes and nr_free_inodes. Nr_inodes stands for the number of inodes the system has -allocated, this can be slightly more than inode-max because -Linux allocates them one pageful at a time. +allocated. Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes. -- 2.17.2
