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Re: [fam] fam / imon linux 2.4.10

To: Nathan Thompson-Amato <nathan.thompson-amato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [fam] fam / imon linux 2.4.10
From: Alex Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:43:08 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: <fam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3BC4B2C4.4020606@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Nathan Thompson-Amato wrote:

> Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It's just a patch. There has been no new fam releases for a long time. If 
> > you want a working fam + dnotify, the easiest way is to use the fam 
> > package from rawhide. If you don't run an xinetd + rpm based system, 
> > get the SRPM and apply the patches from it.
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> The other concern I had is whether the problems listed on the webpage (ie., 
> fam + dnotify holding monitored directories open and being limited by the 
> number of free file descriptors) had been resolved.  If they haven't, 
> perhaps that's why people still favor imon...

Do people routinely monitor files in over 8192 directories? If so, they 
can up the max, without even recompiling the kernel.

/ Alex



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