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

[Vishesh Handa]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de>wrote:

> Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012 schrieben Sie:
>
> > On 6 October 2012 13:29, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > 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-hom
> > > e/
> > >
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you apply the patch in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106748/
> > (motivated by that same post), and rebuild nepomuk-core,
> > you should get a notification window if you run of inotify watches. So
> > then you'll know
> > for sure if the limit is high enough.
> >
> > Hope that's helpful,
>
> Thanks. Thats nice to read.
>
> I will just be setting this to 200000 for now and see how that goes.
>
> I hope that at some time a better kernel notification mechanism becomes
> available. I wonder whether kernel developers are aware of the issues
> desktop file indexing has with the current mechanisms. I can file some
> detailed bug report or enhancement request with kernel.org and try to get
> in touch with some kernel developers about it, if that would be of help.
>

I have tried mailing the relevant kernel developer (Eric Paris) a number of
times, and I still haven't even gotten a reply. If you could get in touch
with some of the kernel developers, that would be amazing!


>
> Thanks,
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Vishesh Handa
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