Re: [Courier-imap] status of gamin vs. fam

[Tony E. <to...@bi...>]

ivan mitev:

>>> does anybody has managed to make gamin work with courier-imap ?
>>>
>>> i'm trying to switch to gamin since - fam 2.6.10 uses more and more
>>> memory (mem leak ?), and a non
>>> neglictible amount of cpu ; a cron restarts it every hour ; that's
>> ugly... -
>>> fam 2.7.0 uses more and more cpu - random crashes for both versions
>>> ->
>>> need a process monitor that restarts it; ugly too
>>
>> I've had none of these problems with source-compiled fam 2.7.0 and
>> Courier
>> IMAP 3.0.7 on RHAS3, uptime at the moment 60+ days without fam or
>> Courier
>> restarts. Serves 1150+ accounts, Thunderbird and Squirrelmail + whatev=
er
>>  the people use at home for it. Same with the same fam and Courier IMA=
P
>>  4.0.2  on this rig, but it's a test rig with much shorter uptime and
>> only a few users.
>
> the crashes with 2.6.10 happen when there is a large amount of events, =
eg.
> when some maildirs with lots of mails are modified "externally" with
> rsync.

I mostly refuse to answer off list, since others know far more than I do.
and might contribute their own experience-

Nor has the above anything to do either with Courier IMAP or fam.

> for 2.7.0, which patches do you use except the dnotfiy one ?

None. Not even "the dnotify one". My sites just work, now tell me what I'=
m
doing wrong.

--Tonni

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