On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 18:25 -0700, John Caruso wrote: > On Tuesday 05:59 PM 8/19/2008, Juan José del Río wrote: > >If you don't want to deactivate it, and have some C skills, I would > >recommend you to make the needed changes to fastpath code to enable it > >to use the kernel facilities of the operating system (in case you're > >using linux, then that'll be "epoll" system call; in FreeBSD case it's > >kqueue; etc.). > > This is an interesting suggestion, but from a > quick scan of the epoll man page it doesn't look > like it would work in this case since it acts on > an open file descriptor, but fastpath associates > file data with a (dev, inode, mtime, size) tuple > without keeping an open file descriptor (and it'd > be pretty wonky for AOLserver to keep open file > descriptors for all files currently in the fastpath cache). > > No matter, though, we've got plenty of > workarounds, and we'll probably just disable > fastpath entirely since the benefits are likely vanishingly small anyway.
Sorry John, i said "epoll", but i meant "inotify". -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
