Tuning inode table size


Tuning inode table size
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Tuning the internal inode table size includes the following tasks:

Increasing the internal inode table size
Changing the size of the directory name lookup cache

VxFS caches inodes in an inode table. The tunable for VxFS to determine the number of entries in its inode table is vxfs_ninode.

VxFS uses the value of vxfs_ninode in /etc/system as the number of entries in the VxFS inode table. By default, the file system uses a value of vxfs_ninode, which is computed based on system memory size.

To increase the internal inode table size

Open the /etc/system file.
Update the following line in the /etc/system file:

  set vxfs:vxfs_ninode = new_value