Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Zeitgeist

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/07/09 11:46, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 2009/7/15 Martyn Russell<martyn lanedo com>:
> > 1. We need to (because of inotify) crawl the file system to set up monitors
> > right now. With the new work alexl and others are doing in the kernel with
> > FANotify, we should be able to avoid this in the future.
>
> Yes, this should be good. I've also noticed bugs where tracker (or
> beagle) use up all the inotify watches, which breaks all PolicyKit
> applications nicely.

Note, we take the /proc inotify limit and only use MAX - 512 to allow 
other apps to use inotify too. We also should be using breadth monitors 
over depth monitors, so top most directories get monitor priority.

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Regards,
Martyn