Bug 470706
| Summary: | beagled uses up all inotify watches | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Scott Doty <scott> | ||||||
| Component: | beagle | Assignee: | Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | adel.gadllah, aliux.parra, aravind.parchuri, davidz, dknapp, john, mclasen, redhat-bugzilla, rhughes, sashang, scott, timosha | ||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-12-18 06:48:02 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Scott Doty
2008-11-09 03:41:08 UTC
the strace several comments up looks like something might be eating up all available inotify watches. Are you running some inotify hog, like trackerd ? Created attachment 323037 [details]
ps -axww output
re: me running something hogging up inotify watches
None that I know of -- I've attached a ps output.
I was also running ccsm, and had the compiz filesystem enabled, but shutting it off didn't clear up the problem.
-Scott
inotify hog could be beagle, possibly. Good call! It was beagle on my system. As soon as I stopped beagle, the previously crashing applications started working properly again. I have around 43k directories/sub-directories in my home directory, and I guess beagle was using up all 8192 of the available inotify watches. I also verified that it was the inotify watch limit by doing an "inotifywatch -r" to set up around 8k watches and managed to reproduce the crash. Any plans to increase the default fs.inotify.max_user_watches ? Aha, killing beagled fixes the problems for me too! I haven't tried this yet, as I'm at the office, but I shall this afternoon. This is very cool! And it makes sense: iirc, i remember seeing that beagled has a delay that it waits at startup before it starts doing its stuff. I wonder how SuSE handles this situation? -Scott This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Just to confirm this happens with FC10 as well. Right clicking on the desktop and then Change Desktop Background would crash. Killing beagled resolved this. When is this going to get fixed? I just ran into this on my FC10 x86_64 system. I only figured it out after using strace and google. This message is a reminder that Fedora 10 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 10. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '10'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 10's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 10 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |