From kfm-devel Sat Mar 11 17:45:38 2006 From: Dik Takken Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:45:38 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Konqueror makes FAM / Gamin go nuts Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=114209917111095 Hi, Until just a few weeks ago, I used FAM for file access notification. The problem with FAM was that when you were watching a directory with files that change very quickly, FAM could go nuts and start consuming all available CPU. Another nasty thing was that FAM was running as root, so users could not kill it in case of emergency. I recently heard about Gamin, the replacement for FAM that can use INotify of recent kernels. Unfortunately the problem of high CPU consumption returned. Now it happens from time to time that Gamin starts consuming lots of CPU for no clear reason whatsoever. The strange thing is that even a Konqueror window that displays a static set of files can trigger nuttyness in Gamin. I draw this conclusion from the fact that the madness stops when I close a konqueror window with static files in it, and the fact that I configured Konqueror to use one independent process for every window. Another observation: Killing Gamin does not always help. A new Gamin process is started, which happily continues wasting CPU. It only stops when the right Konqueror window is closed. How can I investigate what is going on? Is this a known problem? Using KDE 3.5.1 by the way. Cheers, Dik