On 04/20/14 13:49, M. Fioretti wrote: > Greetings, > > a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load > and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the > prompt would produce this message: > > digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit > > which IIUC means this is a general problem on that computer, not > digikam specific. > > An online search returned always the same "fix" described e.g. at > http://monodevelop.com/Inotify_watches_limit, that is: > ################################################################## > To change the limit, run: > > # echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches > > To make the change permanent, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add > this line to the end of the file: > > fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384 > ################################################################## > > (the current value now is 8192) > > I could not, however, find any clear (to me at least) explanation of > possible unwanted side-effects of this. Should I check/do something > else (but what?) or can I safely apply those suggestions and reboot? > Is there risk that doing that stuff "as is" messes things up and > forces me to spend a day or so recovering the system? >
I don't know how the system sets this value. 8192 seems rather small to me. On my system.... [egreshko@meimei inotify]$ cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches 524288 This is the case on an F20 system with 8GB of RAM on real HW and a VM with 1 GB. And there is nothing in my sysctl.conf to override. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
