On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:31:03AM +0300, Ivan Mitev wrote: > hi ! > > following the resolution of bug 143865 > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143865), i've > replaced fam with gamin on a busy mail server (courier-imap with 300+ > accounts and idle feature turned on) > > however, even with no load, gam_server seems to consume more and more > cpu cycles; on the attached mrtg graph, you'll see that > - until 16, fam was running with the same cpu usage (flat average), and > i've replaced it with gamin ; the peaks are because of tests - moving > forth and back a hundred of mails - to check how fast they would > appear/disappear in thunderbird and the ressource used. everything was ok. > - then, during the night, with almost no courier-imap activity (it's > sunday night, only a few email clients are up), the cpu usage slowly grows > - this morning, a bit before 8, gam_server is quite always showing on > the 1st line of top, using a few cpu percents. -> revert back to fam :( > > the monitored files are in /home, which is actually a mount --bind of > /mailspace1 ; /home/vmail/.gaminrc only contains "notify /home/*" to be > sure that polling is not used.
polling will be used on busy resources, that can't be avoided. > courier-imap always run under the vmail > account. > > the kernel is from kernel.org - not patched with inotify. gamin's > version is 0.1.1, compiled from the site's source rpm for fedora core 2. > > any idea ? sorry, no idea right now. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
