From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Mar 29 06:21:51 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4569416A401
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:21:51 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from andxor.it (relay.andxor.it [195.223.2.3])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4778C43D46
	for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:21:48 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org)
Received: (qmail 34813 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2006 06:21:46 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.178.2?)
	(a.premoli@andxor.it@81.174.31.42)
	by andxor.it with SMTP; 29 Mar 2006 06:21:46 -0000
Message-ID: <442A2779.4070708@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:21:45 +0200
From: Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060301)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
References: <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gamin opens too many files
X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>,
	<mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:21:51 -0000

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