On Thu, December 2, 2021 16:06, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2021/12/01 22:15, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>> At the time of import we did not want it to be picked up automatically by
>> random ports. Because we weren?t sure about the quality of it versus other
>> local implementation of watchers in the applications themselves.
>> There were issues at the time, random locks, fd exhaustion etc.
>>
>> Things may be better now.
>
> Also even if it's working correctly, it results in software using a huge
> number of FDs, due to how file monitoring works with kqueue (I think this
> is not a problem with Linux's implementation). So sometimes a poll-based
> mechanism might be preferable.
>
>
Should we add a comment about this? This is not the first time that question
is asked.
No comments:
Post a Comment