On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:54, elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sridhar, > > Can you tell me what "fam daemon" is? I've never heard of it.
FAM is the File Alteration Monitor. I believe it monitors files to see if they have changed. Konqueror uses FAM to provide dynamically updated file views. FAM runs as a process in the background, constantly checking for changed files. The problem is that it can have a propensity to go rogue and eat up 100% of your CPU. The only solution, AFAIK, is to restart the daemon when this happens. I don't know what it's called on Fedora, but on my Gentoo system it's called "famd". In that case, I'd run "service famd restart" from a root terminal. Alternatively, you can use whatever GUI tool Fedora has to manage services. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." -- Bill Gates, 1991
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