Hi Joshua, thank you very much, your solution helped.
Jan On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 3:37 AM joshua stein <j...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 19:48:04 +0100, Jan Betlach wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to sync my media libraries via Syncthing with other machine. > > However Syncthing on OBSD complains about "too many open files" and > refuses > > therefore to scan and synchronize the folder. > > > > I have increased sysctl kern.maxfiles as well as openfiles-max for the > > staff group (of which the user is a member) in login.conf. Probably still > > not enough. > > > > What are safe maximal values for both (kern.maxfiles and openfiles-max) > to > > use? > > Hi, > > Newer versions of syncthing use kqueue by default to watch for file > changes which ends up using a couple file descriptors > per-sub-directory. > > You may be better off just disabling this on large shared folders > and go back to periodic scanning. This can be done through the web > interface by clicking on the folder, then Edit, then Advanced, then > uncheck 'Watch for Changes'. > > https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/5025 > >
