I have recently encounterd an issue on linux servers (Redhat 7.1), that are using NFS for their file systems, where the inode usage becomes abnormally high.
i.e. mail size is=1752064 Where mail is a /var/spool/mail directory. If the spool directory is renamed, and a new directory is created and the content of the renamed directory moved into the new directory the inode count will reduce to 1024-4096 normally. Is this a file system issue, or is it possible that something is holding inodes after files are being removed? I have attempted to use lsof to determine The NFS servers are EMC and Netapp equipment. The file system is being mounted via NFS, and ext3. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
