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Re: [xymon] linux disk space issue
- To: xymon (at) xymon.com
- Subject: Re: [xymon] linux disk space issue
- From: Tom Kauffman <tommyk66 (at) newsguy.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:56:42 -0400
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On Thursday 04 November 2010 08:34:02 am Nordquist, Daniel wrote:
> Hmm... Murphy's law... As soon as I reach out for help, I find something
> that might work.
>
> I'm going to try setting fs.file-max=301472 in /etc/sysctl.conf to increase
> what must be the default of 101472 for the ext3 filesystem on this version
> of linux.
>
> Unless someone has a better idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
That controls the number of files that can be open concurrently - it's a
memory usage control, and won't affect disk usage.
Tom