Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Zeitgeist

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 15/07/09 12:53, Chris Coulson wrote:
> 2009/7/15 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com <mailto:martyn lanedo com>>
>     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.
>
> I didn't know that. Has that always been the case? As a workaroud in
> Ubuntu, we actually increase the inotify limit when tracker is
> installed. That workaround was introduced sometime before 0.6.6 I think,
> but it is not clear to me whether it was introduced to fix any specific
> issue with running out of inotify watches. If you think it is not
> necessary, then it might be good to drop it.

Well, since before I was working on Tracker yes we did something like 
this IIRC. I remember Ubuntu's inotify limit being a lot larger at one 
point and then they put it back down to ~8k.

It should probably still be increased for now, it is quite easy for 
developers or people with several checkouts of the kernel (for example) 
to exceed the inotify limit. I tend to think this is a corner case 
though, but I could be wrong. We have heard of people running out of 
monitors only a few times.

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Regards,
Martyn