Re: [gamin] Recursiveley monitoring large collections

From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
To: Shez <shinyshez yahoo co uk>
Cc: gamin-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [gamin] Recursiveley monitoring large collections
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 07:27:29 -0400

On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:08:36PM +0100, Shez wrote:
> sorry, xxxx should be 9000 directories.

  This can't work on a dnotify based system as monitoring a directory 
requires to open() the directory and you will exhaust the number of file
descriptor openable by a single process. Try inotify, or a polling based
method.

Daniel

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References:
- Re: [gamin] Recursiveley monitoring large collections
  - From: Shez

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