On Mon, 6 May 2002, Christian Kreibich wrote:
> Michael WARDLE wrote:
> >
> > > could someone please tell me what the key drawbacks of using
> > > fam are ? (I believe fam does not allow a single process to monitor
> > more
> > > than 1,000 files/directories)
> >
> > I believe this is a limitation of IMon related to a fixed event queue
> > size, so it does not apply when other monitors (such as DNotify) are
> > being used. Given this number is hard-coded in the IMon patch, you
> > could also change that number to a greater one on your systems, but
> > that is not ideal.
>
> Mhmmm I was under the impression that it's rather a limitation of
> dnotify, based on the maximum number of open file descriptors, is that
> incorrect?
dnotify does indeed have a problem with the maximum number of open file
descriptors. The maximum is larger than 1000 though, being 8192 by
default in recent linux kernels and changeable by root.
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