Find high Inode Usage

[the_ancient]

Is there an easy way to find High Inode usage?

I am using only about 8% of my storage capacity but 77% of my Inode Capacity according to virtuozzo

I need to find where these excessive numbers of files are and if it is a server problem fix it, if it is a user problem well fix that as well

But right now I can not find any 1 place that has an excessive number of files so......

[jfosella]

To me it seems jaguar does not set the limit high enough to ever use your full storage capacity.

[Jamsori]

Are you confident in SSH? A quick google (and having a go myself) shows that putting this command in SSH should help:

echo "Detailed Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n"

[the_ancient]

Right now I dont think it is limit problem..

High Inode counts plays havoc on the backups so keeping them under control is important, more important than raw size IMO

[the_ancient]

Right now I dont think it is limit problem..

High Inode counts plays havoc on the backups so keeping them under control is important, more important than raw size IMO

[Jamsori]

No luck on my command then? Should do the trick

[the_ancient]

No luck on my command then? Should do the trick

Thanks, I have not tried it yet, when I do I will report back, right now I am still dealing with my Mail Server problems

[gohighvoltage]

Let me know how you make out with the high inode usage ancient. I thought I was told most VPS's have high inode usage.

[JPC-Masood]

I am using only about 8% of my storage capacity but 77% of my Inode Capacity according to virtuozzo

77% is based on the limit of inode number of your VPS, so its relative value. Until we know what this % represent, its hard to say if its high or low. If you have a VPS for sometime, the VPS plans by default had very low inode limit set which actually caused problem that on normal use you'll hit the inode limit before you hit any major disk usage.

[the_ancient]

Limit is 300,000

Disk Inodes
Used: 233,273
Used %: 77.8%
Free: 66,727
Total:300,000

I have had the VPS since March 12th 2010, about 20 months

[JPC-Masood]

I think its not that high. I checked a fresh cPanel VPS and it has 150,182 inode usage. This is just plain cPanel VPS without any addons that we normally add after cPanel setup.

Jamsori thanks for the neat ssh script. ancient you should try that. Here's the usage on a cPanel VPS freshly setup with no customization:

Detailed Inode usage for: /
111 - bin
32 - boot
542 - dev
1765 - etc
33196 - home
3943 - lib
312 - lib64
1 - lost+found
1 - media
1 - misc
2 - mnt
1 - net
594 - opt
14997 - proc
458 - root
262 - sbin
1 - selinux
1 - .spamassassin
1 - srv
6197 - sys
13 - tmp
111592 - usr
1826 - var
Total: 175857

So many in /home from the cPanel install scripts

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 26 03:09 .cpan/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 8 22:41 .cpanm/
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Nov 8 22:40 .cpcpan/
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 03:32 cpeasyapache/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 02:40 installd/

Interestingly I checked one of testbed VPS and it has 522,419 inode usage but the limit is at 5M so I'm at 11% usage. Just ask support to up the limit. You'll be fine if you don't find anything unusual in usage report.