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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