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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:21:45 +0200
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gamin opens too many files
Message-ID:  <442A2779.4070708@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
References:  <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>

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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.

--
Alex Dupre



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