I had LOTS of problems with fam and libfam. Since i moved to gamin and libgamin0 (they cover the same dependencies), it works like a charm.
Rafael Rodríguez El Lunes, 13 de Marzo de 2006 21:41, Graham Smith escribió: > On Monday 13 March 2006 10:16, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > Hi Tobias, > > > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 09:47 +0100, Tobias Krais wrote: > > > Hi Joost, > > > > > > > I am experiencing problems with fam, using 100% of CPU (actually 50% > > > > as I have 2 processors ;-)). There is already a bug report for this > > > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252896) . > > > > > > > > Can anyone tell me which programs depend on fam or why it is > > > > installed? Can I safely uninstall the program? > > > > > > I just uninstalled it. My system still works :-) > > > > That does not really surprise me, as the account under which fam runs is > > an ordinary user account. So I don't expect it to be system critical. > > But assuming that there is reason why it is installed, do you have any > > idea what program is not functioning as it should be because fam is not > > running? > > Fam did this on one of my boxes. I eventually tried writing a script to > kill and restart it when it started consuming 100% of the CPU time but I > never got it to work correctly. Anyway after much research I concluded that > no one really knew what was wrong and no one was looking at fixing it - I > removed fam. > > Nothing stopped working but konqueror no longer detects changes to the file > system as quickly as it did before. As I understand it this is because it > now has to poll rather than simply listen t fam. > > Graham > > > -- > > Groeten, > > > > Joost Kraaijeveld > > Askesis B.V. > > Molukkenstraat 14 > > 6524NB Nijmegen > > tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 > > fax: 024-3608416 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: www.askesis.nl
