throwabob214

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by throwabob214 12y ago
> Right now, there's only a single package repository for each major FreeBSD release. The ABI doesn't normally change within major releases, so packages built on FreeBSD 10.0 will work on FreeBSD 10.1 (and vice verse). And it&#
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by throwabob214 12y ago
> With inotify i use one watch per-folder, with kqueue you need to do it by file ( of course you can watch the folder changes, but you need to keep a copy of the file states in that folder, and then re-stat that files to find out what fi
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by throwabob214 12y ago
> This is because iXsystems (Jordan Hubbard) hired Kip to implement it for FreeNAS (and, presumably PC-BSD), I believe EMC Isilon has also sponsored the work. > not because the FreeBSD community thinks it needs a new init system. Righ
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by throwabob214 12y ago
Practically the limits are INT_MAX, the size of the process file descriptor table in-kernel. (And possibly a system limit on vnodes? Just guessing.) 2 billion fds makes for a lot of memory used for open files.
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by throwabob214 12y ago
> FreeBSD has been in the early stages of working on a launchd port for 10 years now. There were several half-serious individual efforts, but I don't think the community / foundation were pursuing it seriously until quite recen
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by throwabob214 12y ago
> pretty much limited by the number of open file descriptors the OS allows to handle, if i don't remember wrong this number in FreeBSD is below 10000 by default And on Linux inotify is bound by /proc/sys/fs/inoti