[kde-freebsd] [patch] Digikam 2.6 - too many open files

[Oleg Sidorkin]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Mel Flynn <rflynn at acsalaska.net> wrote:

> On 13-6-2012 14:13, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 09:35:07 Oleg Sidorkin wrote:
> >
> >> kern.maxfiles: 12328
> >> kern.openfiles: 5826
> >> Album has 6282 photos.
> >
> > I would suggest bumping kern.maxfiles up to something like 25000.  I was
> able
> > to reproduce the error with a smaller kern.maxfiles (~18000) on my
> system.
> > That is a little subjective, though.
>
> Isn't the real problem here that:
> - the program does not handle a resource limit very well (spewing lines
> saying they hit a limit rather then informing the user with one dialog
> what to increase)
> - that the program cannot work correctly with a default system limit
> that is sane for most other workloads.
> - that watching a file for changes is a feature that should have a
> manual option (aka a refresh button) or should at the very least be able
> to work within limits given to the program.
>
> --
> Mel
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Original fix is a workaround of QT behavior on MacOS - as far as I
understand Linux is able to monitor files without opening them using
inotify. FreeBSD has no similar functions so QT has to open each file to
monitor it.

-- 
Oleg Sidorkin
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