So I guess I'm a little unclear. The way that the statement was phrased (if you
absolutely must tune it) implies that there are negative ramifications
associated with setting the value for the system. At 1.5M files instead of 8K,
is this something that's going to severely impact the performance of the host
system? Like I said, I *could* create a KVM which, I believe, would solve the
problem. I just don't want to because of the additional memory and CPU overhead
associated with a KVM. I'd much rather stick with a LX-branded zone, if at all
possible.
Thanks,
John
On Oct 12, 2015, at 07:14 PM, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote:
CrashPlan's example was 1M. I checked my backup status, and I'm at over 1M
files, so I was going to do 1.5M.
Here's an article on the problem as CrashPlan explains it.
John
On Oct 12, 2015, at 06:47 PM, Bryan Cantrill <[email protected]> wrote:
We don't currently allow this value to be tuned via LX /proc, but if you
absolutely must tune it, you can tune inotify_maxwatches to a higher number via
/etc/system on the host (or via mdb -kw, if you'd prefer to not reboot).
It's not impossible for us to make this tunable on a per-zone basis, we just
didn't bother because we didn't think apps were depending on it. What is
CrashPlan trying to set it to?
- Bryan
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, John Croix <[email protected]> wrote:
I’m trying to run CrashPlan in a LX-branded zone. I’m using the 5 Oct 2015
Ubuntu LX-image (52be84d0-6b06-11e5-a4c0-9f0c52fa368a). Everything installs OK,
but I get a message from the CrashPlan installer saying that I need to increase
the maximum number of watched files in Linux, which defaults to 8192. To do so,
I need to set the value of fs.inotify.max_user_watches in /etc/sysctl.conf.
I’ve done this and rebooted the VM, but the value still shows up at 8192 when I
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches.
Does anybody know how I can change this value? I’d prefer to stick with a
LX-branded zone rather than to go to a KVM, if at all possible.
Thanks,
John
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