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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-12-27 15:52:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-12-27 15:52:57 -0400 |
| commit | 3a7570938c5c7c0aab815995fa2fbb4e82ba3688 (patch) | |
| tree | 307b2e945094e8b6ba99ed87849ba964e81fcae3 | |
| parent | 32fb77c8a5a47f40eda8cb6982940304ac238644 (diff) | |
OSX no longer affected by kqueue bugs
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits.mdwn | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn | 6 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits.mdwn index bd4fa0e06..ba2148454 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits.mdwn @@ -18,4 +18,7 @@ Also this was appearing in the logs To be precise, I suspect that the kqueue limit is 256, I had 325 files in the 'queue', I ended up doing a _git annex add_ manually and all was fine. -[[!tag /design/assistant/OSX]] +[[!meta title="kqueue system limits"]] + +> This affects BSD systems that use Kqueue. It no longer affects OSX, +> since we use FSEvents there instead. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn index 10df55b2a..edb6564bf 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/inotify.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ available! * Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically 1024), and fail. I may need to fork off multiple watcher processes to handle this. - See [[bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]]. + See [[bug|bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]]. (Does not affect + OSX any longer). + +* The OSX FSEvents code is new and relatively untested. A known problem is + that it does not handle whole directory renames right. ## todo |