Hi Michelle, > This Bug is a duplicate of #423886.
I checked bug report 423886. During my search in the internet I found out that the quality of famd and dnotify is not considered very high. The SGI famd also has further problems like opening an TCP port and so on. > If you need a better version, why do you not code a "tail-ng"? There is already a program with the name inotail which is packaged in Debian. Unfortunately it does not implement all features of the coreutils tail implemenation. I also see another problem with this impementation because it should be redundant! > Note: tail using inotify would not work on 95% of my systems (nearly 400). With this argument in mind we still would live in trees! :-) > I am usin courier-imap with 17.000 accounts and nearly 1.400.000 folders > and over 400.000.000 messages. > As I was installing courier-imap I had a systemload from over 20!!! The description of your observation is not very precise. What did you use before? Was it sarge with kernel 2.6.8? What did you do? Did upgrade to Debian etch with kernel 2.6.18? > Now I have removed FAM and kompiled a kernel without iAnotify and all is > working fine. It is obviosly a problem whether a program like tail use inotify or not but it is a kernel bug. Did you issue a bug report? > Compiling tail with "inotify" will NOW break all scripts using tail. > "#ifdef" is no solution here. > Maybe UPSTREAM will makes some changes to use an autodetection for > "inotify" but as compile option, it will not work. Absolutely correct! As I mentioned in my wish a runtime check is requiered! If an autodetection would be considered to problematic an option like "-i" could added. If this option is set inotify could used if it present. Under this circumstance we could avoid the need for a program like inotail at all! Please propagate the wish to the upstream. All relevant information are present. Thanks! Dr. Markus Waldeck -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
