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 -- .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· Shallow Sea Aquatics .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`· .¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯ http://www.shallowsea.com ¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`