From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 23:23:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 423CF1065670 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:23:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=d0bb9b024d19fa294840cb23d56d7fbcf1535226=655=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF40D8FC14 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:23:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=d0bb9b024d19fa294840cb23d56d7fbcf1535226=655=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id JAZ12525; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:25 -0700 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 1DC4745019; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:29 -0700 (PDT) To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:03:03 EDT." <1206806583.22569.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1206832949_72816P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:22:29 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080329232229.1DC4745019@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Joe Marcus Clarke X-To_Domain: marcuscom.com X-To: Joe Marcus Clarke X-To_Email: marcus@marcuscom.com X-To_Alias: marcus Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GAM_POLLER vs. kqueue X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:23:46 -0000 --==_Exmh_1206832949_72816P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > 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--