Idle IO, polling plugins directory

Just testing out Serviio as a media server such that my photos can be viewed on the TV. Apart from missing UPnP/DLNA search function, it is working great. Thank you for this great media server.

fatrace indicates the serviio process keeps polling the "plugins" folder every ~10 seconds. The plugins folder contains one file (plugins-readme.txt). I wonder if inotify can be used instead of constant polling.

Config: Ubuntu 16.04LTS, openjdk-8, serviio v1.8

Serviio log indicates inotify-based file monitoring is active:

  Code:

[LibraryDeltaScanner] Added repository '/home/data/Photo' to delta scanner (NATIVE)

  Code:

~# fatrace
java(28528): O /home/pc5dczcbl5yt/plugins
java(28528): RC /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): O /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio
java(28528): CW /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio
java(28528): O /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): RC /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): O /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): RC /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): O /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): RC /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): O /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio
java(28528): CW /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio
java(28528): O /home/serviio/plugins
java(28528): RC /home/serviio/plugins

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you can turn the ceck off by setting the plugins.check system variable to false

http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=43

Thanks Petr for your quick reply. This eliminated the polling to the plugins folder.

The polling to the lock file remains, can that be eliminated also (I am being greedy )

java(28528): O /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio
java(28528): CW /home/serviio/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lock.serviio

and isn't it better if inotify is used to monitor the plugins folder, or is there other limitation?