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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What is fam for?
From:       Simon St James <simon () etotheipiplusone ! com>
Date:       2007-02-04 13:19:55
Message-ID: 200702041319.56649.simon () etotheipiplusone ! com
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On Sunday 04 February 2007 13:00, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:18:19PM +0100, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> >>On Thursday 25 January 2007 14:00, David Faure wrote:
> >>>Strange. I had tons of problems when using gamin (on Mandriva), from
> >>> high cpu usage (constant polling) to non-working features.
> >>
> >>Same here (and mem leaks too). No problem since I moved to Kubuntu,
> >> though.
> >
> > Kubuntu Edgy doesn't use gamin or fam.  Previously we did occationally
> > have gamin taking up randomly large amounts of CPU.
>
> so what does it use?

I believe KDirWatch has the ability to use inotify directly, cutting out 
the "middle-man" (FAM, gamin, etc), as it were :)

Best WIshes,
Simon
 
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