GAM_POLLER vs. kqueue

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:21 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I see the newest version of gamin provides the option of running the
> GAM_POLLER instead of kqueue's.
> 
> Anyone have any guidance on pros and cons? I'm sticking to the default
> unless I see a reason to change, but gam is annoying in that it can
> prevent unmounting volumes, so I thought that this might be relevant.

This option has been in gamin for a long time.  It is generally
preferable to stick with the default, and allow gamin to use kqueue when
possible.  The downside of that approach is that gamin opens a lot of
file descriptors.

Joe

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