On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 01:23:12PM +0100, Andreas Vögele wrote: > It seems that the port so far didn't take into account that the > p5-IO-KQueue package could be installed on the system. Since the > KQueue-based file watcher quickly exceeds the maximum number of open > files in a default OpenBSD installation, I changed ChangeNotify.pm to > prefer the Default watcher even if IO::KQueue is available. I think this > is more reasonable than to ask the users to raise their openfiles and > maxfiles limits from 128 and 7030 to much higher values.
Ok. What about users, who altered their system already, and have raised kern.maxfiles and openfiles-cur in login.conf(5) for example, for gam_server (see gamin package). Not that I am using ChangeNotify.pm, but what is default watcher in that module? Which watcher is more efficient? Does your change (to not use IO::KQueue as default watcher) help the user of ChangeNotify.pm in any way? As wrote above, I'm not using module in subject, but I have concerns for changing defaults.. I'm asking as I feel I'm missing something to understand reasoning. -- best regards q#
