Greetings, a while ago, I noticed that on my Fedora box digiKam would not load and display picture galleries anymore, and when launched from the prompt would produce this message: digikam(14981)/digikam (core): Reached inotify limit which IIUC means this is a general problem on that computer, not digikam specific. An online search returned always the same "fix" described e.g. at http://monodevelop.com/Inotify_watches_limit, that is: ################################################################## To change the limit, run: # echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches To make the change permanent, edit the file /etc/sysctl.conf and add this line to the end of the file: fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384 ################################################################## (the current value now is 8192) I could not, however, find any clear (to me at least) explanation of possible unwanted side-effects of this. Should I check/do something else (but what?) or can I safely apply those suggestions and reboot? Is there risk that doing that stuff "as is" messes things up and forces me to spend a day or so recovering the system? Thanks, Marco -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
