On 2020-11-18, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo <nicola.dellu...@delluomo-morettin.com> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Il 17/11/20 12:45, Stuart Henderson ha scritto: >> On 2020/11/14 21:02, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo wrote: >>> Hi Stuart, >>> >>> thank you for your help! >>> >>> Now it works (almost). >>> >>> The matter here was that login.conf limits were not high enough. >>> >>> With my server configuration seafile client opens ~ 43.000 files: I really >>> didn't expect such >>> an high limit, so I set it to 8192 in login.conf. >>> >>> Now it works, but it definitely wastes an exaggerate amount of resources. >>> >>> When I close seafile client, kern.nfiles count drop form ~ 44.000 to ~ 890! >> If you have that many files in the monitored directory tree, it's expected. > > hope this helps: I do have this many files in the directory tree; \ > however, when I manually sync each library (autosync off), files \ > count never raises and everything definitely syncs in a few seconds (for \ > huge libraries). > However the situation changes drastically when I enable autosync.
I guess "autosync" is what is telling it to use libinotify / kqueue. > Moreover the client behaves differently in linux and in MacOS (it does not > open all these files even with autosync enabled). yes, I have explained about this.
