On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:58 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I assume this comment was about the inotify part. I was looking just at >> the docs. Not sure which version they are for. But I see a December 4th, >> 2013 comment for a 2008 issue in Bugzilla that makes me think inotify is >> not being used. >> > > Rainer has been working on imfile in the last few months. I don't know if > inotify is used or not. > > > I also saw a max of 100 files can be monitored without recompiling. That >> feels like a serious limit. Is making that higher (1000?) or configurable >> an option? >> > > I think I saw a note from him about making that much higher, or having it > dynamically allocate things so there was no hard limit. I don't remember > the details though. > > for older versions, you have to edit the source and recompile, but there's > not a hard limit on how large you can make it, it just eats a little more > ram >
That's another incarnation of the 24hr problem. As David said, I started to work on this in 7.5, but then this work got interrupted by the v8 work (remember that I was quite unhappy at that time?). The current version does not use inotify. Work on that is 98% finished, it's contained in master-imfile (or so) git branch. I initially thought I could merge this into v8 before I leave for vacation, but this no longer is doable. So I now hope to do this in January. Workload at that time will tell if it is possible to finally also implement directory monitoring and such. This is a good example of why I often react with "there is more important work to do". The imfile changes are request by a lot of folks for several month (3 years or so actually). Yet, I always need to push them away due to more important work. I know this is dissatisfying to a couple of folks, including me ;) Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
