Re: [gamin] Monitoring too many files

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:14:58AM +0200, Dmitry Zbarski wrote:
> 
> Using gamin-0.0.14-1 from Rawhide Fedora Core.
> 
> If I try to monitor more then 546 files in one process I don't get events back.
> gamin doesn't eat CPU too much, but select on FAM descriptor never returns.
> In FAM's FAQ I found that there is a limit on number of files monitored by 1
> process. But it says that the limit is 1024 files.
> 
> Now the question is this a bug or a known gamin limitation?

  The gamin server uses GLib loop for registering fds which need to
be poll'ed or select'ed. I don't know internally how glib does it
it might be a good idea to check this.

Daniel

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