Gamin eating CPU

EmbraceThePenguin · 2005-09-19 00:50:16

Ok, I sort of know that Gamin replaces FAM, but when I was using FAM, I never notived my CPU consistantly being used.

Is there a way of turning off gamin? I see in top that gam_server is eating up 30% of my cpu consistantly untill I log off, then it stops until something else starts it.

I tried removing it, but it says that kdelibs is dependant on it...

Thoughts?

Joe

Gullible Jones · 2005-09-19 01:16:56

3893 proteus   20   0  2340 1264  820 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.70 gam_server

What version are you using? Because gamin eating 30% of your CPU time is definitely not normal.

EmbraceThePenguin · 2005-09-19 02:03:28

I am using version 0.1.6-1. Here is my output; its consistantly like this:

 PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1922 *****    20   0  2544 1408  864 S 29.8  0.1  22:44.00 gam_server

EmbraceThePenguin · 2005-09-19 02:45:34

Another thing, does someone know what activates the daemon? I dont have anything in my rc.conf file and it seems to start with my username...

Thanks!!!

Joe

Snowman · 2005-09-19 03:04:34

I think that gamin is not a deamon. It is started when it's needed.

IceRAM · 2005-09-20 11:13:49

Don't worry, I've had famd eating all the CPU here several times.

I hope things will be better once inotify gets used properly by the applications (I might be wrong about inotify, but I think it helps - need more documenting on this).

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