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Re:The Day “/Proc” Died by Symbiote on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:21AM (#20342568)
The default ratio of inodes is configured in /etc/mke2fs.conf. You should either change that, override it with the -i argument when you create the filesystem.

My desktop's / filesystem is around 238,000,000,000 bytes, and with the default ratio of one inode per 16384 bytes, I have around 14,500,000 inodes.

Note that with a default blocksize of 4096, you're limited to 4× as many inodes as you have at present, so if you're seeing this weekly I recommend monitoring the number of remaining inodes (df -i), or changing the app to store sessions in a database.

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Re:The Day “/Proc” Died by simonjgreen on Saturday July 06, 2019 @03:29AM (#20368470)
We're talking about preexisting systems. inodes are already tweaked up during build to highest, and we monitor similar to how you suggest via a checkmk script. If the apps running were ours we could make changes to make them clean up better or store through other means, alas this is just something you have to handle when doing break fix response on 100s of clients making their own decisions.
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