inotify watches limit in karmic is too low ( /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches )
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
procps (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When I start the application "monodevelop" on karmic it says that karmic's default "maximum inotify watches limit" (i.e. /proc/sys/
WARNING [2009-08-04 20:26:15Z]: Inotify watch limit is too low (8192).
MonoDevelop will switch to managed file watching.
See http://
The URL mentioned in the warning has some good info on this issue. I believe it reverts to another, sub-optimal, method (probably some nasty form of polling or so) for notifications when the limit is as low as it is by default in Ubuntu. This means that MonoDevelop consumes more resources than necessary on Ubuntu.
Unless there are good arguments against it, I suggest karmic changes it "maximum allowed inotify watches" to a higher value (I suppose SuSE etc uses 16K since that's what the MonoDevelop guys recommend) to fix this problem.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Looks like "/etc/sysctl.conf" ships in the "procps" package. Maybe that's a better package for this bug?