[Dovecot] Dovecot waking every 50ms when doing nothing

Gerard gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Jun 4 13:54:14 EEST 2007


On Sunday June 03, 2007 at 01:48:33 (PM) Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> > I presume porting Dovecot to use the glib main loop abstraction (which
> > is nice and lean, the object system is a separate library) is out  
> > of the
> > question?
> 
>    Please don't.  One reason Dovecot is so easy to get up and running  
> quickly is that it has minimal dependencies.  For those of us who  
> aren't running Linux on PCs that can become a headache very quickly,  
> as the authors of many of the depended-upon libraries often get  
> "creative" with nonportable GCCisms and other such nonsense.  And  
> even when one *is* running Linux on a PC, sometimes we don't want to  
> build fifteen packages in order to build one.
> 
>    That's not to say that simply adding one dependency on glib would  
> cause a huge problem...but it indicates the adoption of a mindset,  
> and it's a slippery slope.

I am using FreeBSD-6.2 presently. Using 'portmanager' as my updating
application, I have never experienced the problems or conceived
problems as they may be on my system. Perhaps that is just a localized
phenomena though.

-- 
Gerard


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