Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:52:03 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: BK performance tip (22x faster) |
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Chuck Lever writes: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > I had to bump the limit on a machine here to 64k inodes, because > > someone was generating large numbers of small files. So I'd prefer > > a higher limit as well. Unfortunately, inodes are hugely bloated > > (taking at least 396 bytes), so 64k inodes would take up nearly 25 MiB > > of RAM! We probably shouldn't do that by default. > > > > However, I note that 2.3.99 and later don't have this control file > > anyway. Perhaps it's dynamic now? > > 2.3/4 kernels use a SLAB cache for inodes, instead of an ad hoc > cache. the old limit was used to determine when to reap inodes. > the new system reaps them automatically when system memory is short.
Good. That's what I was hoping for.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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