[Samba] Failed to init inotify - Too many open files

[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Meike,

Du meintest am 10.06.15:

> I've a problem on my system with inotify.

> In the smbd logfile are shown a lot messages like this:

> [2015/06/10 11:15:21.644453,  0, pid=57030, effective(12700, 100),
> real(0, 0)] smbd/notify_inotify.c:297(inotify_setup) Failed to init
> inotify - Too many open files

[...]

> I can't find the reason, why smbd ist complaining.

[...]

> # sysctl -a | grep inotify
> fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 16384
> fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 128
> fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536

Maybe it helps to increase "max_user_instances" in this file; I had the  
same error messages and have set this parameter to 32768.

        sysctl -p

re-reads this configuration file.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut