Re: Inotify problem [was Re: 2.6.13-rc6-mm1]

John McCutchan
2005-08-25T14:39:48Z

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 16:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:06 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> > > it fails on 2.6.13-rc6 as soon as the device is full and doesn't hold
> > > any more directories.
>
> Obviously this wasn't true, I was hitting the 8192 watches limit and
> misinterpreted the error message. I just tested up to 100000 watches
> with this program.

Thanks. The program runs fine, it climbs up until 8192. This confirmed a
hunch I had. The problem only manifests itself when the lower idr
numbers aren't actually being used. The thread
http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2004-July/msg00003.html seems
somewhat related to this problem, but it suggests that this was fixed in
2.6.7.

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John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>