Hi again,
Thanks Sridhar, much appreciated. I'll try that out.
Sridhar wrote
Sat, 20 Aug 2005 00:17:25 +1000
>>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.
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