CLOSED: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:47:01 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/20/14 16:28, M. Fioretti wrote: > > ok that's why then. So the only thing I need, if anything, is further > > confirmation that increasing it on F17 would not cause problems. I'll > > wait until tomorrow for further comments and then

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Apr 20, 2014 6:46 PM, "Ed Greshko" wrote: > > On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > > > The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is insta

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 21:38, Ahmad Samir wrote: > /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf is included in the > initramfs by dracut when a kernel is installed/updated. Check `lsinitrd > /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep sysctl`. > > So in effect you'd have to re-create the initramfs aft

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 20 April 2014 15:15, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > > > The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later > releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by > /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is insta

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later > releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by > /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is installed by > nepomuk-core, so ideally you'd get th

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 20:51, Ahmad Samir wrote: > The value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches was increased in F18, and later > releases, due to this bug[1] in nepomuk. It's configured by > /usr/lib/sysctl.d/97-kde-nepomuk-filewatch-inotify.conf which is installed by > nepomuk-core, so ideally you'd get that

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 20 April 2014 10:28, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:24:08 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > FWIW, everything I've seen indicates this value is not calculated > > but configured when the kernel is compiled. I just happen to have > > an ol

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 16:28, M. Fioretti wrote: > ok that's why then. So the only thing I need, if anything, is further > confirmation that increasing it on F17 would not cause problems. I'll > wait until tomorrow for further comments and then "risk" the increase > :-) FWIW, I just made the change in /etc/s

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 16:24:08 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: > FWIW, everything I've seen indicates this value is not calculated > but configured when the kernel is compiled. I just happen to have > an old F17 disk and created a VM. As expected, it is set to

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 15:08, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:40:07 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> One "silly" question. >> >> What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the >> mailing lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated > this is happening

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:40:07 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > One "silly" question. > > What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the mailing > lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated this is happening on an F17 box. It **is** scheduled to be mov

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread Ed Greshko
One "silly" question. What version of Fedora are you running. I found a message on the mailing lists back in 2010 which, from a reliable source, indicated > > > kde packagers received a request to consider shipping systems with a > > > higher (default) value of > > > /proc/sys/fs

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 14:09, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:11:24 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. > good point, thanks. This, in fact, is a side question that I forgot to > ask in my original email: what are the criteri

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 14:11:24 PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. good point, thanks. This, in fact, is a side question that I forgot to ask in my original email: what are the criteria or rule of thumb to calculate which val

Re: advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/20/14 13:49, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load > and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the > prompt would produce this message: > > digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit > > which IIUC

advice needed before changing inotify max_user_watches

2014-04-19 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the prompt would produce this message: digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit which IIUC means this is a general problem on that computer, no