[Nepomuk] User limit reached. Please raise the inotify user watch limit

[Vishesh Handa]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de>wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
Hey Martin


> I read
>
> Nepomuk not indexing a large home
> Author:Alvaro Soliverez (Hei_Ku)
>
> http://soliverez.com.ar/home/2012/10/nepomuk-not-indexing-a-large-home/
>
>
> I wonder what is the official recommendation on fs.inotify.max_user_watches
> limit?
>
> I think it needs at least as much as count of directories in my home. Is
> that true?
>

Yes. If you have any other directories indexed which are not in $HOME, then
you'll need to count the directories over there as well.


>
> That is:
>
> martin at merkaba:~> find -type d | wc -l
> 35292
>
> So a limit of about 100000 should be more than enough? System is a
> ThinkPad T520 with Intel Sandybridge i5 and 8 GiB of RAM. So I hope it
> would cope with that.
>

That should be enough. The general rule of thumb is to keep it way higher
than the number of directories. Nepomuk requires 1 watch for each directory.


>
> (Yes I read about the issues Nepomuk has with in kernel notification
> mechanisms.)
>
> As for timeline:/: For today it shows some files, which are all not from
> today but from 1997 till 2028. KDE SC 4.8.4 on Debian Sid.
>
> Thanks,
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Vishesh Handa
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