From: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
To: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
nautilus-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:24:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090293890.14653.2.camel@vertex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407192242390.28424@vivaldi.madbase.net>
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:59, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote:
> > Also the maximum number of devices that can be opened at a time is
> > 8.
>
> Why is that limit there? There doesn't seem to be any particular need
> for it in the code... Why not remove watcher_count altogether?
>
The limits are there to control the amount of kernel resources used by
inotify. They are not meant to be anything but a guesstimate.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-20 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-18 19:49 [PATCH] inotify 0.5 John McCutchan
2004-07-18 19:53 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:02 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 20:11 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:22 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 23:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-07-19 1:42 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-19 8:43 ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19 13:33 ` Chris Friesen
2004-07-19 21:31 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-20 2:59 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-07-20 3:24 ` John McCutchan [this message]
2004-07-20 1:33 ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19 3:37 ` Daniel Veillard
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