[Gllug] Courier Imapd: Failed to create cache file

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 08:31:57PM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
> It doesn't say what it was trying to do that resulted in the I/O error, 
> which isn't helpful. My guess is that it was trying to open a socket to 
> famd and failing because famd isn't running.
> 
> You should probably install it anyway - it will tell Courier when files 
> on the filesystem change/are created etc. Should help Courier do Cool 
> Stuff(tm) (of course, it'll also probably cause slight system slowdown, 
> higher resource usage, etc, but hopefully not enough to notice). Courier 
> may even emulate the stuff famd does using slower routines - in that 
> case, installing famd might even make it go faster!

It shouldn't cause the system to slow down at all.  Famd provides an
efficient solution for applications to be notified of filesystem changes.
Previously, applications had to poll files which was both inaccurate and
terribly inefficient.  Using famd is a Good Thing(tm). :-)

Pete
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