Re: Amount of i-nodes

Jan Van Ham wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've created a 7GB partition with 1 000 000 inodes ... (to accomodate many small
> cache-files) Is this a ridiculous amount of i-nodes of does this makes sense with
> large(r) cache-volumes ??

Actually it is a bit on the low edge...

> I've seen graphs with cache-machines who had up to 4 000 000 objects in
> cache...this means they must have a lot of i-nodes defined ? not ?

Then they have quite a bit more inodes..

"lot" is a relative measure, relative to KB/inode, not the total size of
the drive. For Squid use somewhere around 5KB/inode is probably
reasonable.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker