Problem of unable to transcode and play

[ChuckPa]

When you get EAE i/o errors, one of two things is the cause:

1. More directories being monitored than the kernel default
2. Transcoder temp on a network mount (file locking doesn’t work)

The default directory count for older linux kernels is 8192. Newer linux kernels default to 65535

Procedure here is to figure out how many directories are being monitored then, if necessary, adjust the inotify max_user_watches table size.

Linux Tips

Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…