On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>wrote:
> Am Samstag, 6. Oktober 2012 schrieben Sie: > > > On 6 October 2012 13:29, Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I read > > > > > > Nepomuk not indexing a large home > > > Author:Alvaro Soliverez (Hei_Ku) > > > > > > http://soliverez.com.ar/home/2012/10/nepomuk-not-indexing-a-large-hom > > > e/ > > > > > > > > > I wonder what is the official recommendation on > > > fs.inotify.max_user_watches limit? > > > > > > I think it needs at least as much as count of directories in my home. > > > Is that true? > > > > > > That is: > > > > > > martin@merkaba:~> find -type d | wc -l > > > 35292 > > > > > > So a limit of about 100000 should be more than enough? System is a > > > ThinkPad T520 with Intel Sandybridge i5 and 8 GiB of RAM. So I hope > > > it would cope with that. > > > > Hi, > > > > If you apply the patch in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106748/ > > (motivated by that same post), and rebuild nepomuk-core, > > you should get a notification window if you run of inotify watches. So > > then you'll know > > for sure if the limit is high enough. > > > > Hope that's helpful, > > Thanks. Thats nice to read. > > I will just be setting this to 200000 for now and see how that goes. > > I hope that at some time a better kernel notification mechanism becomes > available. I wonder whether kernel developers are aware of the issues > desktop file indexing has with the current mechanisms. I can file some > detailed bug report or enhancement request with kernel.org and try to get > in touch with some kernel developers about it, if that would be of help. > I have tried mailing the relevant kernel developer (Eric Paris) a number of times, and I still haven't even gotten a reply. If you could get in touch with some of the kernel developers, that would be amazing! > > Thanks, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 > _______________________________________________ > Nepomuk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk > -- Vishesh Handa
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