[Digikam-users] Re-start issue

[Volker Henn]

Hi, 
I found in the documentation:

Note: The act of monitoring files and directories for modifications consumes 
system resources. This implies there is a limit to the number of files and 
directories your process can monitor simultaneously. On Mac OS X 10.4 and all 
BSD variants, for example, an open file descriptor is required for each 
monitored file. Some system limits the number of open file descriptors to 256 
by default. This means that addPath() and addPaths() will fail if your process 
tries to add more than 256 files or directories to the file system monitor. 
Also note that your process may have other file descriptors open in addition 
to the ones for files being monitored, and these other open descriptors also 
count in the total. Mac OS X 10.5 and up use a different backend and do not 
suffer from this issue.

So you may try to reduce the number of folders, or find other applications 
that keep files open.
Hope this helps.

Volker




Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013, 09:28:58 schrieb Dick Angus:

Kubuntu 12.10 current
Digikam 2.8 from the current Kubuntu repository
Digikam database 110.8 Gb
			762 folders
			18,389 images

I do a lot of work with Digikam. Resizing, sharpening, colour correction, 
renaming, etc. I have found in the past few weeks that I can open Digikam, do 
a bunch of work, and close Digikam just fine. However, if I restart Digikam 
without restarting Kubuntu I get a large number of error messages of the type:

QfilesystemWatcher: failed to add paths: path-name :too many files open

The path-name starts about 3/4 of the way through the albums in my Digikam 
directory. If I do a system restart then Digikam opens properly and works 
well. Does anyone have any suggestions?
-- 
An old mainframer getting modern


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