FAM large CPU usage

Komodo · 2006-05-17 20:16:36

Monitoring for a few moments in htop, I noticed that famd jumps to 50-60% cpu usage on an AthlonXP 3000+ underclocked to 1050mhz. Does that seem reasonable, or is something up?

JGC · 2006-05-17 21:33:00

If you have quite some disk activity, fam can jump up in CPU usage quite a lot yes. As both KDE and GNOME support direct kernel notification using inotify nowadays, you could consider dropping fam if you use gnome(-vfs) or kde(libs).

Komodo · 2006-05-17 22:50:29

JGC wrote:

If you have quite some disk activity, fam can jump up in CPU usage quite a lot yes. As both KDE and GNOME support direct kernel notification using inotify nowadays, you could consider dropping fam if you use gnome(-vfs) or kde(libs).

Fam's a dependency of kdelibs

Snowman · 2006-05-18 01:21:38

Komodo wrote:

JGC wrote:
If you have quite some disk activity, fam can jump up in CPU usage quite a lot yes. As both KDE and GNOME support direct kernel notification using inotify nowadays, you could consider dropping fam if you use gnome(-vfs) or kde(libs).
Fam's a dependency of kdelibs

Yes, but dont start the daemon.

Komodo · 2006-05-18 05:35:12

Snowman wrote:

Komodo wrote:
JGC wrote:
If you have quite some disk activity, fam can jump up in CPU usage quite a lot yes. As both KDE and GNOME support direct kernel notification using inotify nowadays, you could consider dropping fam if you use gnome(-vfs) or kde(libs).
Fam's a dependency of kdelibs
Yes, but dont start the daemon.

*ahem*

ah, yes, well... that's.... umm... yeah....

*feels stupid*

elephantos · 2008-05-14 00:52:49

i suddenly started getting around 90% with famd using Gnome, so i disabled the daemon.

Last edited by elephantos (2008-05-14 00:58:15)

skottish · 2008-05-14 01:01:11

elephantos wrote:

i suddenly started getting around 90% with famd using Gnome, so i disabled the daemon.

I had to stop using Thunar, my preferred file manager, because both Fam and Gamin were causing so many problems.

elephantos · 2008-05-15 04:37:47

that both blows and sucks. so youre saying it's more important that fam is running than to be using Thunar?

skottish · 2008-05-15 17:18:19

elephantos wrote:

that both blows and sucks. so youre saying it's more important that fam is running than to be using Thunar?

There's a problem with thread race conditions with Thunar and fam/gamin. I got to the point where I was having to force kill Thunar multiple times every day; Sometimes six or seven times a day. I switched to pcmanfm with gamin, and I've only seen it happen one time in months of use. The Thunar devs are aware of this; They have been for almost two years. It seems to happen more for some users than for others so the problem apparently is illusive. pcmanfm works great, I just can't get it as minimalistic as Thunar. So the only strike for me is appearance. To answer your question directly, I want automatic updates in my graphical file manager, so yes, it's more important to me.

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FAM large CPU usage

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