FAM crap-out

mglauche · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:57 pm Post subject:

no, your not the only one. I did disable fam because of that. everytime i start kde, fam freaks out with 99.9% cpu ...

app-admin/fam-oss
Latest version available: 2.6.9
Latest version installed: 2.6.9
Size of downloaded files: 304 kB

but if there's a masked version, maybe its worth a try ..

arkane · l33t Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 918 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Appears the only version available currently in portage (masked or unmasked) is 2.6.9.

Mustard007 · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 4:46 am Post subject:

Yes,
I have an Athlon-XP 1800+ with AK77-333 motherboard.

With KDE 3.1RC2, i think i don't had this trouble. It's since RC3. I hope this will be resolved with 3.1 final !

Thanks !

Mustard007 · Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2002 4:58 pm Post subject:

Now i have the same trouble with KDE3.1_rc5.

Thanks !

Mustard007 · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 1:16 am Post subject:

Nothing new with this issue ???

xcable · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 8:08 pm Post subject: possible fix

I have found a possible fix. Fam on my system was also taking most of my processor's clock cycles (about 95%). I changed the init.d fam start script (it was using some start-stop-daemon deamon that comes form debian, i think). I rewrote the script, rebooted and so far everything is ok (no need to run rc-update).

here is the script located in /etc/init.d/fam

depend() {
need portmap
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting fam"
/usr/bin/fam
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping fam"
kill $(pidof fam)
eend $?
}

hope this helps

cable

Mustard007 · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2002 1:24 am Post subject:

Doesn't work for me....

I hope this will be corrected soon !!

We have not a lot of information about this trouble and news about fam-oss.

slikdigit · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2002 Posts: 73 Location: US

hello just thought I'd add that I've seen this too. running fam from /etc/init.d/fam start, I've got a P4 , ReiserFS, gnome 2. just experienced a slowdown, saw fam at 97% of cpu. restarted it and not a problem since.
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kadmos · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Australia

Hi All

A FAM user recently suggested a fix for this issue on the
FAM mailing list.

If you have time, please try building FAM using the flags specified in
the above-mentioned message and post your results here or on the
FAM mailing list.

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2003 2:36 pm Post subject:

here's a rather brutal megapatch of all the current patches, DNotify, the GCC fixup and the fix from the fam thread previously mentioned.

It's probably fairly nasty but gimme a break it was my first go at diff and patch.. and I haven't tested it yet (playing with IMon right now

)

megapatch.diff

STRIKE THAT...
here's a real patch, so long as we omit the gcc fixes I can get this to compile, with the gcc fix applied I get tons of errors and imon even when imon isn't a part of the kernel anymore.

dnotifyfix.patch

I'll update you on the progress and stability.

I wonder why that patch looks so..... strange... it's a one liner yet it's +100kb... who cares, it's applies and the code compiles - now we stress test then we fix it later

- a bit later -
hehe, first hour in my life running fam where it hasn't flipped out and started using 100% CPU time..

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject:

Yup... FAM has yet to crap out on me after this fix... I feel I've pushed fam in every way I can think off, and it's still doing great..

Let's commit this darling of a fix to Portage..

aardvark · Guru Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 576

This sounds great! Have you perhaps made a modified ebuild yet?

I'm not so hardy at patching by hand............
(Never done it on any scale

)

chines · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:15 pm Post subject:

I have downloades the two files, how do you patch it?
Thanks

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject:

Here's a bugreport with a new ebuild as promised, and yes, I did clean up my patch.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14420

chines · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

So far so good
The patch works great !
I'm using vanilla sources and no problems
Thanks !!

It would be nice if the gentoo team update their ebuild with yours
Cheers

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject:

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

I've still had this happen using fam-2.7.0-r1. In fact I can't remember any version of fam ever not crapping out on me, but I haven't touched fam in a long time until now because of this problem.

Jtb · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

It seems that this behaviour is still there.
I don't want to manually patch my fam-installation...
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calr0x · Apprentice Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 244

Its a 2 year old thread...
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