Hi guys, Can anyone tell me what the advantage is of running fam-server? It does nothing but going haywire every now and then and maxing my system out. If I don't run it, my mail log is filled with fam related errors. This is on my notebook, but I've had the same issue with fam for as long as I can remember on every version of SUSE I've used. Does anyone know how to rebuild courier-imap without fam support, or at least get it not to bitch about it in the logs? Thanks Hans
Hans, On Monday 16 October 2006 13:48, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
Can anyone tell me what the advantage is of running fam-server? It does nothing but going haywire every now and then and maxing my system out. If I don't run it, my mail log is filled with fam related errors.
That was my experience with the older fam, the one that was user-space only with no kernel support. I believe the modern one with kernel support is a completely different beast and distinctly improved over the old version. Nonetheless, unless you're running something that needs to monitor file system alterations, there's no point in running fam of any vintage.
This is on my notebook, but I've had the same issue with fam for as long as I can remember on every version of SUSE I've used.
You really should tell us which version of the system and of fam you're using.
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Thanks Hans
Randall Schulz
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:33 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That was my experience with the older fam, the one that was user-space only with no kernel support. I believe the modern one with kernel support is a completely different beast and distinctly improved over the old version. [snip]
This is on my notebook, but I've had the same issue with fam for as long as I can remember on every version of SUSE I've used.
You really should tell us which version of the system and of fam you're using.
I'm using SUSE 10.1 (32bit) with the stock fam-server-2.7.0-7. As I mentioned, I have had the same behaviour with previous versions of SUSE. It seems to be triggered, amongst other things, by writing a big (multiple gigs) file to the filesystem. On my notebook I have my mail in an imap store (using courier-imap). There's just one user, me - so the mailbox is never open more than once at a time (which I understand from the fam and courier docs why courier uses fam). So in my case fam is completely unnecessary. But if I don't have it running courier fills my mail log with fam errors. Thanks Hans
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-10-17 at 00:56 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
I'm using SUSE 10.1 (32bit) with the stock fam-server-2.7.0-7. As I mentioned, I have had the same behaviour with previous versions of SUSE. It seems to be triggered, amongst other things, by writing a big (multiple gigs) file to the filesystem.
Yes, I have seen that, with smaller files (350MiB). I have to restart famd. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFNByHtTMYHG2NR9URAqJaAJ9MFE+Vym3H316qHDsd0ndkxfpsdQCeJnCc jwk8wHOAokXpq0cm7hXuMjk= =Hl0R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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