Re: Problem with a large number of directories.

["Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko" <simonf@xxxxxxxx>]

To followup on this - I've run the Perl script again, and this time it 
went through all the directories. Very strange.

I've found this in the FAM FAQ:

***
Simultaneous requests: Each client process can have up to 1024 active 
requests. This is a limitation of the select() system call.
***

Does anybody know if it's still true and what exactly it means? That I 
can't request to monitor more than 1024 directories? But it looks like I 
can, for now.

Also, is anybody actively maintaining FAM? In Fedora 3, the FAM package 
has been dropped in favor of the Gamin project:

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html

Thanks,
Simon

Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko 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.
>
> Simon

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