[Dovecot] Inotify instance limit for user exceeded, disabling.

Anders mail at flac.kalibalik.dk
Mon May 5 11:15:23 EEST 2008


Anders wrote:

> What does the warning "Inotify instance limit for user exceeded,
> disabling." mean, and how do I get rid of it? I assume that I have to
> change a limit somewhere?

Okay, reading the source has me think that this is an OS limit, so I
increased /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

Is there some way to calculate the upper limit? I imaging that each folder
in each connection needs a watch?


Cheers,
Anders.




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