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authorStephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>2022-09-30 13:29:33 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2022-10-20 01:42:08 +0300
commita75c6589fee79edcf15747459ebfaee503df9a8b (patch)
treecb912bf522c88540bb4c6335cd0fc0ae662ad7d9 /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl
parent554d4389166f26765cc24f0723aee2642fcc3c26 (diff)
downloadlinux-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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst16
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.