Re: Building off Medusa

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

> I you're using the dnotify version if FAM it *does* open each directory.
Wait!  You're telling me that the command-line program I used last day 
*did* open each directory of the thousands?  It sure didn't feel like it 
did that.

for the record, that server has FAM using kernel dnotify support.

> I should know, since I wrote that code. If you're using imon it doesn't, but 
> then you need to patch your kernel. If you're not using either of them 
> you're polling, which indeed doesn't open each directory, but has resource 
> utilization problems (polling thousands of directories every few 
> seconds? No thanks).
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