We'll take patches against FAM if they're supplied, but everyone here is
otherwise too busy with other things to actively work on FAM.
Michael
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:14:50PM -0500, Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:
> To followup on this - I've run the Perl script again, and this time it
> went through all the directories. Very strange.
>
> I've found this in the FAM FAQ:
>
> ***
> Simultaneous requests: Each client process can have up to 1024 active
> requests. This is a limitation of the select() system call.
> ***
>
> Does anybody know if it's still true and what exactly it means? That I
> can't request to monitor more than 1024 directories? But it looks like I
> can, for now.
>
> Also, is anybody actively maintaining FAM? In Fedora 3, the FAM package
> has been dropped in favor of the Gamin project:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/index.html
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
> Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone has used fam with thousands of directories? I have about 6k
> > of them, and halfway through traversing the directory tree the Perl
> > script that I am using hangs up.
> >
> > I am aware that I have to keep reading messages while I am adding
> > directories to avoid filling the message queue, so that is not an issue.
> >
> > I would appreciate any hints on where to look for the problem.
> >
> > Simon
>
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