#719897 Mention inotify increase in README.Debian or in minidlna.conf

Package:
minidlna
Source:
minidlna
Description:
lightweight DLNA/UPnP-AV server targeted at embedded systems
Submitter:
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Date:
2023-08-30 07:51:08 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#719897#5
Date:
2013-08-16 15:29:19 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
     Add new files to the share after minidlna is started.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     Add new files to the share after minidlna is started.
   * What was the outcome of this action?
     THe newly added files did not reflect on my DLNA client

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
     Newly added files should be sensed by minidlna and served to the DLNA client. Doing a force-reload does work.

#719897#10
Date:
2014-05-13 14:50:37 UTC
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Have you checked to make sure users are allowed to create enough inotify
watches? This is a frequent minidlna issue when having more than just a
few media files.

It'd be nice to add a comment about this to minidlna.conf.

See the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA#Automatic_Media_DB_Update

Regards,
Florian

#719897#13
Date:
2014-05-13 14:50:37 UTC
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Have you checked to make sure users are allowed to create enough inotify
watches? This is a frequent minidlna issue when having more than just a
few media files.

It'd be nice to add a comment about this to minidlna.conf.

See the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA#Automatic_Media_DB_Update

Regards,
Florian

#719897#18
Date:
2014-05-13 15:01:24 UTC
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From what i recollect i did. That was an ask in the config file itself. By
the way I'm no more using minidlna. So can't provide any realtime
information more

s3nt fr0m a $martph0ne, excuse typ0s
On May 13, 2014 8:24 PM, "Florian Will" <florian.will@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you checked to make sure users are allowed to create enough inotify
watches? This is a frequent minidlna issue when having more than just a
few media files.

It'd be nice to add a comment about this to minidlna.conf.

See the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA#Automatic_Media_DB_Update

Regards,
Florian

#719897#21
Date:
2014-05-13 15:01:24 UTC
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From what i recollect i did. That was an ask in the config file itself. By
the way I'm no more using minidlna. So can't provide any realtime
information more

s3nt fr0m a $martph0ne, excuse typ0s
On May 13, 2014 8:24 PM, "Florian Will" <florian.will@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you checked to make sure users are allowed to create enough inotify
watches? This is a frequent minidlna issue when having more than just a
few media files.

It'd be nice to add a comment about this to minidlna.conf.

See the Arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MiniDLNA#Automatic_Media_DB_Update

Regards,
Florian

#719897#30
Date:
2015-03-04 18:38:15 UTC
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There might be another way to fix this, as can be seen in the tracker
package:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/tracker.git/tree/debian/30-tracker.conf

Add a .conf to the package to increase the watches limit.

Regards,
Florian

#719897#35
Date:
2015-03-05 12:26:27 UTC
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Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:38:15 +0100
Florian Will <florian.will@gmail.com> wrote:
I think, that I'd better put instruction to README.Debian.

It's not common to have over 8 thousand directories shared, so I think
it's system administrator who should decide.

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2015-10-28 12:02:42 UTC
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#719897#45
Date:
2017-08-22 13:49:39 UTC
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I have this problem, too.

IMHO minidlna should not require difficult system changes
besides changing the default search path for music and video
files, but it should work out of the box. If necessary, it
should give inotify the boot and poll the search paths at
boot time and once every hour.

Regards
Harri

#719897#50
Date:
2023-08-30 07:49:53 UTC
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This issue is now pretty much moot, since by default

$ sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536

and 64K "should be enough for anyone."