Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:47:29 +0100 (MET) | From | Pavel Krauz <> | Subject | printk in nr_files == max_files, nr_inodes == max_inodes |
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Hi all
I am running host which serves 50 users through samba, pop, sendmail, WWW, etc.
Recently I run out off max_files and max_inodes. I noticed that some program stoped working. At first I didn't know what happend but then I found that the problem was that the NR_INODE and NR_FILE was to small.
I think that printk should notice you when you run into this problem because if you forget to increase them processes start to die with no particular reason (programs are badly written - in my case the pop server stoped responding to user requests) and kernel won't inform you.
Be careful when you add the printk. Jiffies counter should be observed in the way that you avoid the printk storm when nr_files == max_files or if nr_files come close to max_files.
with regards Pavel Krauz <kra@elanor.cz> Please reply personaly if you want to.
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