Re: Problem with a large number of directories.

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

Frank,

I wish it were the matter of fd's. I'm running as root, and my 
/proc/sys/fs/file-max is 262k.
Thanks,
Simon

Frank Hemer wrote:
> 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?
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