Oops... just double checked... it's actually file-max and inode-max... I had the terms backwards with respect to the hyphen. Replace what I put below. - Herman Herman Knief wrote:
Check this:
cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-nr
The first number is the max-inodes that the system can allocate, the second is the number currently in use (if memory serves.) They were nice enough to increase the max files value ot 8192 for you, but the default max-inode is 16384... It is generally recommended that max-inode be set to four times the value of max-file. I for one run a fairly large mail server, and have max-file and max-inode set to 16384 and 65535 respectively.
You can change them by simply doing:
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/max-file echo 65535 > /proc/sys/fs/max-inode
- Herman