On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/30/06, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> I've noticed that sometimes Thunar (and Xfdesktop) take much time to
start
> >>> thanks to FAM. Check if you have FAM running and if you do, try to
stop FAM
> >>> service and then see if Thunar loads faster.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Rodrigo. What is FAM? How can I turn it off?
> >
> > FAM is File Alteration Monitor, thunar/xfdesktop uses it for
> > "auto-refreshing" the dir/files listing. It's usually a service, so a
"sudo
> > /etc/init.d/fam stop" should do the job for testing.
> > I don't know if FC6 uses FAM or Gamin, (gamin is almost the samething
as
> > FAM), so you should check at your distro which on it uses.
>
> Right, and if you stop it, then thunar and xfdesktop won't be able to
> tell when files are created, deleted, or changed, without the user doing
> a manual refresh. So I wouldn't recommend that.
>
> Better would be to switch to using gamin instead of FAM, but how to do
> so on $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE is an exercise left to the Googler.
No luck, Brian:
# rpm -qi fam
package fam is not installed
# rpm -qi gamin
Name : gamin Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.1.7 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 8.fc6 Build Date: Mon 20 Nov
2006 11:03:45 AM WET
Install Date: Mon 04 Dec 2006 10:20:04 PM WET Build Host:
hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com
Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM:
gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.src.rpm
Size : 366536 License: LGPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 04 Dec 2006 02:02:50 PM WET, Key ID
b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
Summary : Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API
Description :
This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration
monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide
daemon.
#
Paul
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So FC6 probably uses gamin, and since my problems were with FAM, I don't
know if gamin suffers from it also.
Brian: I suggested him to stop FAM just for testing purposes, to see if it
was his problem or not.
--
Cheers,
Rodrigo
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