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Description of problem: I tried to manually launch abrt whilst tracker mining/indexing was switched on. abrt would fail with "disk full" errors, though df reported my disk was not full. As soon as tracker was switched off, the problem disappeared. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tracker 0.8.3-1 abrt 1.0.9-2 How reproducible: Only tried once so far. Steps to Reproduce: 1. tracker-control -s (only default miners are installed. Left it running over night to index system. It appeared to have done so as it had reached 100% indexing completed.) 2. service abrtd stop 3. abrtd -dvvv 4. Output of abrt: abrtd: inotify_add_watch failed on '/var/cache/abrt': No space left on device 5. Because of this error, I ran df. Here is the output: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 100791728 12018816 83652912 13% / tmpfs 2001184 956 2000228 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 198337 98969 89128 53% /boot /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02 47807384 36117772 9261096 80% /home 6. Next, I turned off the data-mining with: tracker-control -t 7. Ran abrtd -dvvv again. 8. Error no longer appears. Actual results: abrt was reporting that disk was out of space when only 13% of root was in use. Expected results: Data mining/indexing should not consume this amount of resources (if it was) or interfere with running of other programs. Additional info:
(In reply to comment #0) The following response were left by the upstream developer on the bug at GNOME bugzilla; > > abrtd: inotify_add_watch failed on '/var/cache/abrt': No space left on device > "No space left on device" is slightly inaccurate. What it really means is, you have no more inotify watches available. You have exhausted them all. Tracker uses MAX - 512 so you always have 512 for other applications, so presumably some other application is using a lot of inotify watches AND you used up all the watches in Tracker too. > 5. Because of this error, I ran df. Here is the output: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root > 100791728 12018816 83652912 13% / > tmpfs 2001184 956 2000228 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sda1 198337 98969 89128 53% /boot > /dev/mapper/VolGroup-LogVol02 > 47807384 36117772 9261096 80% /home > Yea, this has nothing to do with actual disk space. > 6. Next, I turned off the data-mining with: tracker-control -t > 7. Ran abrtd -dvvv again. > 8. Error no longer appears. > That's because tracker uses a lot if watches (depending on your file system). Are you able to provide logs from tracker-miner-fs? For details see the Logging section of this page: http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Debugging That log should tell you if you're exhausting your inotify watches or not, which I suspect you are, in any case, there should be *some* left for your application to operate normally unless another application uses too many too.
Created attachment 410246 [details] Here is a copy of the tracker-miner-fs.log. Hope this helps. Cheers.
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