Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:51:55 +0200 From: :mato: <gamato@pobox.sk> To: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> Cc: freebsd-kde@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern.maxfiles exceeded soon after KDE or Gnome started Message-ID: <4538C66B.3010001@pobox.sk> In-Reply-To: <20061020122643.1ac5d0df@apircalabu.dsd.ro> References: <4538BCF2.2030408@pobox.sk> <20061020122643.1ac5d0df@apircalabu.dsd.ro>
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Adi Pircalabu wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:11:30 +0200 martinko wrote: > > >> I've installed KDE 3.5.4 and Gnome 2.14 on a new GENERIC installation >> of 6.2-PRERELEASE. >> Both desktop environments syslog error about exceeding kern.maxfiles >> limit soon after their started. >> While with Window Maker and many open apps, and even with Xfce 4.2, I >> usually have between 200 to 500 kern.openfiles, kern.maxfiles >> (defaults to 1064) is obviously too low for KDE/Gnome or I'm running >> into an issue or sth. >> As I haven't noticed recommendation on kern.maxfiles on project pages >> nor during installation of the ports, I'd like to ask the community >> what are the sane recommended numbers ?? >> > > See /usr/ports/devel/gamin/pkg-message on how to handle this. > > Hi Adi, Thanks for your pointer! Anyway, I do not open large folders (as suggested in gamin/pkg-message) and still run into issue already at startup. Also I failed to notice any warning on Gnome or KDE sites. It might help other users to avoid the same issue. Regards, Martin
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