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belrpr
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R.Smith
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| Gamin is a file monitor which is a replacement for FAM. What Gamin does, as far as I understand it, is monitor the filesystem for changes in files/directories so that when they're created/deleted, the changes will be displayed without having to refresh nautilus. |
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dolcraith
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| But there is no config files for gamin installed (/etc/gamin). The reason I state this is that gamin (or more appropriate the gam_server) eats alot of memory (~125MB) at times. Is there a way to reduce this memory consumption? I ask because it pushes alot of memory to swap when it really shouldn't and slows down the computer. |
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neuron
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| dolcraith wrote: | | But there is no config files for gamin installed (/etc/gamin). The reason I state this is that gamin (or more appropriate the gam_server) eats alot of memory (~125MB) at times. Is there a way to reduce this memory consumption? I ask because it pushes alot of memory to swap when it really shouldn't and slows down the computer. |
unfortunatly that's because it's quite broke, a lot of people are having memory leaks (I've had gamin leak 900mb memory). gamin is on the way out though, programs should be supporting inotify directly. |
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CompNerd
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tylerwylie
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Would this be responsible for Nautilus using 99% of my CPU every now and then. (haven't been able to recreate)
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neuron
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hard to say, doubt it, it'd probably be gam_server
but try putting this:
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none /var/log/*
none /home/<user>/.xsession-errors
none /mnt/server/*
fsset ext3 notify
fsset ext2 notify
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in /etc/gamin/gaminrc
fill in your username ofc, also I disabled monitoring on /mnt/server/*, since that's a samba mounted network drive.
you'd also have to change the notify thing (or just add a new line) if your using a different filesystem |
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blurp
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just came across this thread while searching for fam and gamin. recently i've been cleaning my gentoo system using app-portage/udept and the fam package kept appearing during deepclean although a number of gnome packages need it.
somehow my system had fam instead of gamin but the dependencies are somehow not reflected properly.
but after reading this thread, does it mean that it is advisable to keep fam instead of gamin? I was actually thinking of emerging gamin to get rid of the dependencies annoyance until i came across this thread. |
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neuron
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| blurp wrote: | just came across this thread while searching for fam and gamin. recently i've been cleaning my gentoo system using app-portage/udept and the fam package kept appearing during deepclean although a number of gnome packages need it.
somehow my system had fam instead of gamin but the dependencies are somehow not reflected properly.
but after reading this thread, does it mean that it is advisable to keep fam instead of gamin? I was actually thinking of emerging gamin to get rid of the dependencies annoyance until i came across this thread. |
in my experience gamin is bad, but fam is worse.
I believe gnome is moving away from gamin though (and using native inotify support instead). |
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blurp
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just curious...
neuron, could you briefly explain why fam is worse? imho, 125mb and 900mb of memory leak are pretty scary. so far, i've not felt the existence of large memory leaks on my gentoo laptop... |
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neuron
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| blurp wrote: | just curious...
neuron, could you briefly explain why fam is worse? imho, 125mb and 900mb of memory leak are pretty scary. so far, i've not felt the existence of large memory leaks on my gentoo laptop... |
I've seen the same thing on fam  , and it does polling instead of inotify, so it uses a heck of a lot more resources on average as well. |
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