Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:29:46 -0800 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gamin opens too many files Message-ID: <200603282229.47145.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <442A2779.4070708@FreeBSD.org> References: <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> <442A2779.4070708@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday 28 March 2006 22:21, Alex Dupre wrote: > David Syphers wrote: > > I recently was getting messages about maxing out the number of open files > > on my system, and discovered that gam_server has gone crazy. Right after > > booting, opening KDE, I have nearly 2600 open files on my computer, and > > 2200 of those are opened by gam_server, according to fstat. And clearly > > that number can go up to nearly 8000, as I've got kern.maxfiles at 8136. > > That's absolutely normal for KDE. It will monitor many directories > (/etc, your home, your desktop, some share dirs), so you have to > increase the kern.maxfiles parameter as suggested by gamin's pkg-message. Thanks for the info. Did this just start in KDE 3.5? This had certainly never been an issue before, but I did upgrade from 3.4.x not too long ago. Also, would this be related to the fact that my load averages seem to be higher than they used to be? -David
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