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From: "Pooja Goyal" <pgoyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: [fam] fam limitations
> could someone please tell me what the key drawbacks of using
> fam are ? (I believe fam does not allow a single process to monitor
more
> than 1,000 files/directories)
I believe this is a limitation of IMon related to a fixed event queue
size, so it does not apply when other monitors (such as DNotify) are
being used. Given this number is hard-coded in the IMon patch, you
could also change that number to a greater one on your systems, but
that is not ideal.
> also what are alternative programs that can be used in place of
> fam ?
I don't know of any suitable alternatives. Some systems have their
own mechanisms such as kqueue vnode monitoring on FreeBSD, but last I
saw, kqueue could only monitor UFS/FFS filesystems, and of course it's
not available on other operating systems. Having said this, I'm keen
for FAM to support various low-level monitors so it can be as
efficient and as widely-available as possible.
Regards
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MICHAEL WARDLE
SGI Desktop & Admin Software
Adacel Technologies Limited
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