Re: ORBit-like /tmp functions

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 13:25, Rob Adams wrote:
> > What about just making a hard FAM dependancy and nuking the daemon
> > altogether?
> > 
> 
> Would mean a lot more resource usage. Also, the daemon isn't just for
> notification, it's also for locking and caching.
> 

To clarify the resource usage a bit, consider what using fam involves:
 - keeping all files you're monitoring for changes in memory
 - when they change, running a diff algorithm to generate 
   the change notifications

So it's memory to keep the files around and CPU to run all the diffs.

Plus it's a pain in the butt to implement.

Havoc