Re: Problem with a large number of directories.

[Frank Hemer <frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 23:05, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone has used fam with thousands of directories? I have about 6k
> of them, and halfway through traversing the directory tree the Perl
> script that I am using hangs up.
>
> I am aware that I have to keep reading messages while I am adding
> directories to avoid filling the message queue, so that is not an issue.
>
> I would appreciate any hints on where to look for the problem.

Maybe your fd's are exhausted? The linux default as none-root is about 1024?

Frank