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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:26:26 +0200
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gam_server opening 4000 file descriptors
Message-ID:  <hk0jeh$slu$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <201001292309.39703.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
References:  <201001292309.39703.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>

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On 29.01.2010 17:09, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> I have had to set a FreeBSD up again after the hard disk died.
>
> It runs now on 7.2.
>
> I noticed today that the gam_server opens some 4000 file descriptors.
>
> Ok, I have read
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
>
> All I have found out is that I should increase the number of file descriptors.
>
> Isn't there any other way to tell gamin not to do this?

Don't increase the number of file descriptors. Did you read pkg-message? 
gamin uses at most 70% of kern.maxfiles

On the other hand you can switch to polling. This way gamin would not 
use file descriptors in expense of greater cpu usage.

-- 
Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.




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