Fwd: Nepomuk recommendations for KDE SC 4.5

[Tim Gardner]

On 08/04/2010 11:34 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:50:43AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> The default limit for user watches is 8K, but you can set it to an
>> arbitrary value by writing /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches. This
>> appears to be the case in Lucid as the current value _is_ 524288. Memory
>> is not allocated until the inotify watch is instantiated.
>
> My lucid install reports 8K, I wonder what's changing it in yours.
>
>> This doesn't seem like a kernel issue.
>
> inotify and its defaults are a kernel issue, where else do they come
> from?
>
> Seems I can override it by putting a file in /etc/sysctl.d though so I
> guess I'll just do that.
>

I guess thats what I meant by it not being a kernel issue. The mechanism 
to change the default exists, so its now an app space policy problem.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com