https://github.com/KDE/kde-inotify-survey

Tooling for monitoring inotify limits and informing the user when they have been or about to be reached.
https://github.com/KDE/kde-inotify-survey

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Tooling for monitoring inotify limits and informing the user when they have been or about to be reached.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/KDE/kde-inotify-survey
• Owner: KDE
• Created: 2022-05-09T20:50:12.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-04-26T13:31:22.000Z (12 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T11:58:18.432Z (12 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://invent.kde.org/system/kde-inotify-survey
• Size: 550 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSES/BSD-3-Clause.txt

Awesome Lists containing this project

• awesome-kde - kde-inotify-survey - diagnostic tool to check inotify limits ([screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/kde-inotify-survey/refs/heads/master/screenshot.png), [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify)) (Core components)

README

        


Have you ever wondered why dolphin or any other application stopped noticing file changes? Chances are you ran out of inotify resources. kde-inotify-survey to the rescue! Sporting a kded module to tell you when things are getting dicey and a CLI tool to inspect the state of affairs.

# CLI

`kde-inotify-survey` prints a json presentation of the current inotify state of the user.

# KDED

The inotify KDED module additionally polls the state every couple minutes and warns if the user capacities have been exhausted.

The notification also includes the ability to increase the capacity by a fixed amount up to a fixed limit (8192 for instances; *128 for watches).

![Screenie](https://invent.kde.org/sitter/kde-inotify-survey/-/raw/master/screenshot.png)