Increase file watcher delay on BSD

Since BSD does not support inotify polling in the `notify` crate and
instead relies on manual filesystem polling, this would cause a high CPU
usage at 100 polls a second.

A separate polling rate of once per second is now used for platforms
which do not support filesystem polling, allowing users to still make
use of live config reload on BSD.

Fixes #3871.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 55e16249..e98ae125 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Cursor position not reported to apps when mouse is moved with button held outside of window
 - No live config update when starting Alacritty with a broken configuration file
 - PTY not drained to the end with the `--hold` flag enabled
+- High CPU usage on BSD with live config reload enabled
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/alacritty/src/config/monitor.rs b/alacritty/src/config/monitor.rs
index 5d388182..4a694fac 100644
--- a/alacritty/src/config/monitor.rs
+++ b/alacritty/src/config/monitor.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ use alacritty_terminal::thread;
 
 use crate::event::{Event, EventProxy};
 
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows"))]
+const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(10);
+#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos", target_os = "windows")))]
+const DEBOUNCE_DELAY: Duration = Duration::from_millis(1000);
+
 pub fn watch(mut paths: Vec<PathBuf>, event_proxy: EventProxy) {
     // Canonicalize all paths, filtering out the ones that do not exist.
     paths = paths
@@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ pub fn watch(mut paths: Vec<PathBuf>, event_proxy: EventProxy) {
 
     // The Duration argument is a debouncing period.
     let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel();
-    let mut watcher = match watcher(tx, Duration::from_millis(10)) {
+    let mut watcher = match watcher(tx, DEBOUNCE_DELAY) {
         Ok(watcher) => watcher,
         Err(err) => {
             error!("Unable to watch config file: {}", err);