OS X does a good job of tracking what applications are where and what they do. I have little idea how this works, but if I move VLC.app into a new home then all the files that open in VLC still work. Great. I imagine it involves FSEvents and gobs of XML somewhere. However the […]
… rocks! However, some early VM-related kernel panics – kmem_map too small panic – knocked confidence a bit. Seems ZFS really nails the kernel’s memory demands. Happily “the vm_kern.c.2 patch” (it’s well known!) sorted things. I stressed ZFS-backed IO massively without any further wobbles. Now I can micro-quota all my jail(8)s with obsession!
The full context for this is just too shonky so it’s omitted here. FAM is a file monitoring system from SGI that some Linux distros link their courier-imapd against (the SGI OSS pages for it needs some love, it’s seemingly abandoned). The ‘drop-in’ FAM replacement, gamin, doesn’t provide enough FAMness to fly: Nov 7 14:03:45 localhost […]
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