[Ocfs2-users] High inodes usage

[Sunil Mushran]

That number is typically calculated. So it just could be bad arithmetic.
But that should not affect the other ops.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Nicolas Michel <be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I don't know if it's the root cause of my problems or if it causes any
> problem at all. But I have some stability issues on the cluster so I'm
> investigating anything that could be suspect. My question is : is it a
> normal behavior to get inode usage with df -i showing high percentage like
> 98, 99 or 100%? (a touch on the filesystem with 100% inode usage still
> create a file so I suppose it is not causing any problem but I found it
> weird).
>
>
> 2013/7/3 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at gmail.com>
>
>> That is old. It just could be a minor bug is that release. Is it causing
>> you any problems?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Nicolas Michel <
>> be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Sunil,
>>>
>>> I checked the inode usage with df -i
>>> I can't check the kernel version running on the system now because I'm
>>> not at work but it's a SLES 10 SP2, so a pretty old kernel I suppose.
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/7/3 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> Hoe did you figure this out? Also, which version of the kernel are you
>>>> using?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Nicolas Michel <
>>>> be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using OCFS2 for a shared storage (on SAN). I just saw that the
>>>>> inode usage is really high although these filesystems are used for Oracle
>>>>> DATA storage. So there are really a few big files.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't understand why the inode usage is so high with such few big
>>>>> files (As an example : one of the filesystem have 16 files and directories
>>>>> but the ~26 million of inodes are almost used!)
>>>>>
>>>>> My questions :
>>>>> - is the inode usage can be a problem in such a situation
>>>>> - if it is : how can I reduce their number used? Or increase the pool
>>>>> of available inodes?
>>>>> - why so many inodes are used with such a few files? I was sure that
>>>>> there were traditionaly one inode used for one file or one directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Nicolas MICHEL
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicolas MICHEL
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Nicolas MICHEL
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