From: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
To: bryanwilkerson@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify 0.23 errno 28 (ENOSPC)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:35:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116952520.13324.38.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050524163309.74541.qmail@web53401.mail.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 09:33 -0700, Bryan Wilkerson wrote:
> I read an earlier thread where you said that it was
> possible to manually walk a tree and add all
> directories to an inotify watch descriptor. I wrote
> some code to do this and the ioctl call fails on my
> machine after adding 9,977 directories with ENOSPC.
>
> I've attached a small repro case. Just point it at
> the base of a large dir tree (e.g. inotify-r ~) to
> use.
>
> My kernel is 2.6.12-rc3 with the inotify 0.23 patch.
> Let me know if you need more information.
This is intended. There is a per-user limit on the number of watches.
By default, that limit is 8192.
You can view and edit the number via
/sys/class/misc/inotify/max_user_watches
Best,
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-24 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-24 16:33 Bryan Wilkerson
2005-05-24 16:35 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-05-24 16:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-24 16:55 ` Robert Love
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