[Gllug] Courier Imapd: Failed to create cache file

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On Tue, 11 May 2004, Russell Howe muttered drunkenly:
> Well, if you weren't running famd before, and Courier happened to not
> be doing any polling either, then you're running an extra (albeit
> likely small) process, which is doing some (albeit likely minimal)
> work when certain fs events occur.

No: famd only notes that fs changes have happened to a given file when
an application requests to be notified of changes to that file through
libfam. If nothing asks, it doesn't do anything --- and, indeed, the
default configuration upon `make install' is to run it from inetd, so
the only extra overhead imposed is a nanoscopic slowdown of inetd.

> So, it could quite easily slow a machine down, though whether or not
> it would be noticeable...

Only if you were doing CPU-clock-accurate timings. ;)

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