On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:24:23AM -0500, Jay Lee enlightened us: > Tony Earnshaw wrote: > >You have a bee in your bonnet w.r.t. fam, not? > > No I don't though I've had issues with it in the past... I'm simply > suggesting that has been the cause of problems before and could be this > guy's problem. A quick search on the list archives would make it clear > that more than a few people have had issues with FAM/Gamin in the past > (yourself being one of them). > > >There is *nothing* wrong > >with fam on recent Red Hat derived distros, especially > >RHEL5/CentOS5/FC6. > > I didn't say there was, if you'd read my email you'd have noticed that I > recommend he use a recent kernel which uses Gamin and inotify, obviously > FC6+ and EL5+ meet these recommendations... > > >It's called gam-server there: > > > > No, it's not called gam-server, it's Gamin and it's an entirely > different project from FAM while maintaining API and ABI compatability. > At least get your facts straight if you're going to argue with someone. > > >Nor was there anything wrong with fam on RHAS4 - I state that after > >having run a couple or three years' Courier IMAP production on it. Nor > >was there on RHEL3 after building SGI's fam source > > And did you try it with Maildirs containing 5,000+ messages? I could > reproducibly get imapd to hit 99% on RHEL4/Gamin/dnotify. Moving up to > RHEL5/Gamin/inotify solved these issues. Even upgrading to a more > recent kernel on RHEL4 which included inotify solved the issues though I > didn't like doing that because I prefer to stay with the official RedHat > kernel on my EL boxes. > > Just because you haven't hit a particular bug Tony, doesn't mean it > doesn't exist... >
Like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=244633 or https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240154 for example. I just had to kill of a gamin process this morning as one of my users was trying to clean up a lot of e-mail...the benefits outweigh the occasional problem for me, though, so I live with it and watch for out of control processes. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
