Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:29 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GAM_POLLER vs. kqueue Message-ID: <20080329232229.1DC4745019@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:03:03 EDT." <1206806583.22569.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--==_Exmh_1206832949_72816P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:03:03 -0400 > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:21 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I see the newest version of gamin provides the option of running the > > GAM_POLLER instead of kqueue's. > > > > Anyone have any guidance on pros and cons? I'm sticking to the default > > unless I see a reason to change, but gam is annoying in that it can > > prevent unmounting volumes, so I thought that this might be relevant. > > This option has been in gamin for a long time. It is generally > preferable to stick with the default, and allow gamin to use kqueue when > possible. The downside of that approach is that gamin opens a lot of > file descriptors. > > Joe > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc Thanks, Joe! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1206832949_72816P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH7s81kn3rs5h7N1ERAt8hAJ4wyhHEESWcQecM8+z4FJnzvbl73wCdExEp rnOEMd+S0YGEhLPkTkdtKKQ= =v38P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1206832949_72816P--
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