devel/fam build failure

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:15:28 +0400
Sergey Matveychuk <sem at FreeBSD.org> mentioned:
> 
> Does any of them use kqueue(2)?
> 

SGI fam port doesn't use kqueue/kfilter interface because of kqueue
impossibilty to monitor files by inode/filename. Therefore it
requires to actually open file for reading that can potentially
pollute system memory by open file descriptors (the limited number
of which is usually available) and always consumes a large number
of resources.

I'm currently working on providing imon-like interface for FreeBSD
to monitor fs events in efficient way. Currently, timer-based
monitoring is the most efficient way, IMHO. 

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Stanislav Sedov         MBSD labs, Inc.         <ssedov at mbsd.msk.ru>
Россия, Москва         http://mbsd.msk.ru

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