--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@
Increasing resources for inotify
- On Linux systems, monitoring a big tree may imply increasing the resources
+ On Linux systems, monitoring a big tree may need increasing the resources
available to inotify, which are normally defined in /etc/sysctl.conf.
### inotify
@@ -882,6 +882,10 @@
fs.notify.max_user_instances=256
fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768
+
+ Especially, you will need to trim your tree or adjust the max_user_watches
+ value if indexing exits with a message about errno ENOSPC (28) from
+ inotify_add_watch.
2.8.1. Slowing down the reindexing rate for fast changing files