Hi John,
Thanks for the explanation.
But, what about inodes-max? Any hints?
TIA, Paulo Henrique
On Wed, 8 May 2002 14:27:06 +0100
"John Burnham" <jpb@???> wrote:
>
> > actually it is 4096. What is a good number? 16384? I'm asking before
> because it's a production server.
>
> 4096. Yeah, that's the default for Debian if I remember right - I've
> upped the number to 131072 on one of my servers but it has a lot of
> memory.
> Some webpage I've just googled says:
> The file-max file /proc/sys/fs/file-max sets the maximum number of
> file-handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. We generally tune
> this file to improve the number of open files by increasing the value
> of /proc/sys/fs/file-max to something reasonable like 256 for every 4M
> of RAM we have: i.e. for a machine with 128 MB of RAM, set it to
> 8192 - 128/4=32 32*256=8192.
>
> Don't forget to alter the inodes-max as well.
> John
>
>
>
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