I have a Centos 6 server that is running kernel 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64.
I'm experiencing an issue in which the system is hitting the max number of allocated inodes. At this moment, inode-state returns this:
# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-state
279522 48040 0 0 0 0 0
I have 48040 inodes free, but several times per day this server will hit the limit ( it's a busy database server ).
Please, note that I'm not talking about used inodes, those defined in the file system. This is fine since when I run df -i, usage is only 14%.
How can I increase the allocated inodes limit? I saw that inode-max was removed in kernel 2.2 and couldn't find any other parameter related to this.
--- Edit ---
The used filesystem is ext4 and here is the output of df -i:
# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12804096 1783423 11020673 14% /
tmpfs 33062480 11 33062469 1% /dev/shm
sysctl fs.file-nr
? (# of allocated file handles, number allocated but not used and max).