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| author | Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org> | 2022-09-30 13:29:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2022-10-20 01:42:08 +0300 |
| commit | a75c6589fee79edcf15747459ebfaee503df9a8b (patch) | |
| tree | cb912bf522c88540bb4c6335cd0fc0ae662ad7d9 /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl | |
| parent | 554d4389166f26765cc24f0723aee2642fcc3c26 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a75c6589fee79edcf15747459ebfaee503df9a8b.tar.xz | |
docs: sysctl/fs: remove references to inode-max
inode-max was removed in 2.3.20pre1, remove references to it in the
sysctl documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220930102937.135841-2-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst index 2a501c9ddc55..54130ae33df8 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... @@ -156,11 +149,10 @@ The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes, nr_free_inodes and preshrink. 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 (?) and -preshrink is nonzero when the nr_inodes > inode-max and the +preshrink is nonzero when the system needs to prune the inode list instead of allocating more. |