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Article #9820Re: inodes table
From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 23:24
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 23:24
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>With all of the discussion about the text table and the ntext parameter in >the kernel...Is pstat inquiring of this table correctly? Yes. >Should I worry and reconfigure param.c with ninodes calculated with >fudge factors like ntext? No. >Why is this not acting like any other kernel table? Because entries in the directory name lookup cache require the inode for the inode referred to by the entry to hang around. If the system really needs an inode table slot, it will purge DNLC entries until it either gets one or runs out of entries to purge, at which point it has *really* run out of inodes and complains.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: inodes table Message-ID: <695@auspex.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 88 23:24:22 GMT References: <8811300754.AA11396@groucho> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 13 Dec 88 18:50:18 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 66, message 6 of 10