Too many to handle

[aitch251]

Hey,

First: Great and helpful tool. Using this for one year and it was working most of the time.

Setting:
Debian
FTPd Server
Customer uploads pictures
watcher triggers a console application which makes a SQL Insert into our MySQL
a daemon handles this files and moves them where i want the files

Problem:
New customer upload sometime more than 200 Files at once
watcher seems not to be able to handle it
sometimes around 80 files don't get paste into MySQL

So i guess because of too many actions watcher can't queue the actions anymore

Suggestions? I will now check again what could be the problem.

Thanks!

[bertalanimre]

Couldn't it be this issue with you as well?

Troubleshooting

If inotify is reporting that it can't create watches due to lack of disk space, but you have plenty of disk space and inodes available, then you may have to raise the max number of inotify watches.

To check the max number of inotify watches:

cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

To set the max number of inotify watches:

echo 20000 | sudo tee -a /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches