----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] famd : use or disable ?
> Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> thanks for detailed explanation >> >> OK, my 1st RPM did have fam support, so I can re-install that, but, how >> do >> I asses I have gamin/fam working properly ? >> >> my inital install with fam enabled was giving fam errors; >> so I need fam as well as gamin ? >> >> $ rpm -q gamin >> gamin-0.1.7-1.2.EL4 >> >> is this my starting point ? >> ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/stable/fam-2.7.0.tar.gz > > Don't screw around with FAM, it's old and unmaintained. SGI who wrote it > stopped developing it years ago. All the major distros switched over to > Gamin which is API and ABI compatible with FAM while being much simpler to > configure. Install the latest version of Gamin for your distro. I > recommend using a newer distro that uses a newer 2.6.x kernel (2.6.18+). > These kernels support inotify instead of dnotify, inotify is a much more > powerful way of the kernel notifying Gamin of changed files. In my > testing, dnotify would crap out on a Maildir of 5,000+ emails and push > imapd to 100% CPU utilization. inotify does not have these issues. > > If you're using RHEL, use RHEL5. If you're using Fedora, use FC7 or the > soon to be released FC8. Well - question related to this: does anyone use gamin with RHEL5/FC7 and homedirs on nfs? Does it work? We are mounting homedirs from NetApp NAS250 and i saw some strange behavior with gamin under load - don't quite remember detail now, but i think it was huge wait times. Didn't have time to troubleshoot - production server and all, but would love the come back to gamin at some point. Oh - system is Cento5/ courier imap 4.1.3 Thanks > > Jay > -- > Jay Lee > Network / Systems Administrator > Information Technology Dept. > Philadelphia Biblical University > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Courier-imap mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
