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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:22:46 -0500
From:      Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au
Subject:   Re: too many open files
Message-ID:  <4ED3DF86.9010803@queue.to>
In-Reply-To: <E194A4DE220BBE4FAF3AB7C4E7EDA08601D57044@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
References:  <E194A4DE220BBE4FAF3AB7C4E7EDA08601D57044@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>

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On 11/27/2011 22:07, Murray Taylor wrote:
> I have have the same issue on a 8.0-RELEASE box and found with
> fstat the tgam_server was holding 12511 open files ...
>
> A what purpose does this serve (google seems to indicate
> that it is to speed up file access....)

File alteration monitoring

>
> B howinhell can I clobber it so it releases the files OR
> (preferably) doesn't start doing this or anything...?

Create a gaminrc.  I stole the template from the first google hit on 
"gaminrc" and stuck it in /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc




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