tracker in F16

[Cosimo Cecchi]

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 11:22 -0500, Michael Ekstrand wrote:

> I think it would also be good to evaluate the default inotify limits and
> consider raising them (or decreasing the number of inotify watches
> Tracker uses).  When running Tracker, I've had other software such as
> Dropbox complain that it cannot use inotify because I have too many
> watches registered.

I must say I've never seen this error (despite using Dropbox), but it
seems like a valid thing to investigate into (Ideally tracker should use
something like fanotify [1] instead and be happy). Please file a bug
(possibly upstream) if you encounter a similar bug again.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/360955/

Cosimo