[bug-notifications] [gamin 0004596]: gam_server uses more than 50% CPU

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4596 
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Reported By:                pfelecan
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    gamin
Issue ID:                   4596
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   high
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-11-07 19:32 CET
Last Modified:              2010-11-07 20:46 CET
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Summary:                    gam_server uses more than 50% CPU
Description: 
This was discussed in June on the maintainers list but there is no report
and no solution. Maybe documenting the issue on tha package's trac main
page would be nice, also.
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 (0008441) pfelecan (developer) - 2010-11-07 20:46
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4596#c8441 
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I tried to use the 3 possible configuration files (see
http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) with the following,
identical, content:

fsset ufs none
fsset zfs none
fsset nfs none
fsset devfs none
fsset sharefs none
fsset ctfs none
fsset objfs none
fsset tmpfs none

to no avail.

The only way to avoid this unuseful CPU consumption is to:

mv /opt/csw/libexec/gam_server /opt/csw/libexec/gam_server.OFF

Note that most application will gladely run without the gam_server but
output the following messages on the standard error:

failed to find gam_server
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-peter/fam-

(avidemux2_gtk:3364): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=3


(avidemux2_gtk:3364): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local
directory monitor type

the last line is output at each file dialog invocation.