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OSX no longer affected by kqueue bugs

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Joey Hess 2012-12-27 15:52:57 -04:00
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@ -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]]

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@ -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.
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