[Dovecot] Dovecot under daemontools

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Thu Aug 10 19:53:07 EEST 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:49 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:23:05AM -0500, Rick Romero wrote:
> > Well the way I read configure --help is this:
> > 
> > --with-ioloop=IOLOOP    Specify the I/O loop method to use
> >                           (epoll, kqueue, poll; best for the fastest 	
> > 			available;
> > 	                   default is poll)
> >   --with-notify=IOLOOP    Specify the file system notification method to
> > 			 use
> >                           (dnotify, inotify, kqueue, none;
> >                            default dnotify if compilable, otherwise
> > 			 none)
> > 
> > If I don't specify anything, I should get 'poll' and 'dnotify' - if
> > FreeBSD supports it - or 'none', respectively.  
> > On my FreeBSD box, I get kqueue and kqueue.
> 
> That's FreeBSD ports' behaviour.  Just look at the port's Makefile: 
> 
> .if !defined(WITHOUT_KQUEUE)
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--with-ioloop=kqueue --with-notify=kqueue
> .endif
> 
> Hence, set WITHOUT_KQUEUE if you don't want it.  

That's definitely a solution, except I compiled from source on my own, I
didn't use the port. 

Otherwise I'd would let the port maintainer know that kqueue seems to be
an issue and it probably should be changed..  

Is that you? :)

> 	Geert



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