On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 02:47, Roach, Mark R. wrote:
> Hi, all. I am running up against some strange fam problems in my
> attempts to mirror a couple of linux file servers.
>
> I have a directory with 2089 subdirectories and 37239 files in those
> subdirectories. I am using the python-fam bindings from
> python-fam.sf.net.
FAM has some problems monitoring more than about 250 directories or a
more than about 4000 files. I've not had the time to investigate why,
but I would greatly appreciate any pointers or patches.
As you suggest, (until this problem is fixed) you could break up the
requests into multiple processes, each handling fewer files. This is
the documented method, but I've not tried it recently. Some of the file
limits are definately on a per-client basis, but I wonder whether some
may also exist on a per-host basis.
> oh, PS I am on debian woody with the versions of fam and libfam from
> sid, namely 2.6.9 and kernel version 2.4.20
This means:
a) you have the latest stable version of FAM
b) the DNotify patch has been applied
c) your kernel supports DNotify
(Just thought I'd mention that :-))
Sorry I can't help more at this point
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Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Adacel Technologies
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