[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:              2010-11-08 22:57 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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 (0008445) phil (manager) - 2010-11-08 22:57
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4596#c8445 
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(I'm presuming you are having difficulties on a solaris 9 system. is this
true?)

I'm pondering.... ugly as it may be.. that the "best" solution, may be to
either

a) revert to fam (which is more easily disabled)
b) make it so that our gnome libs have fam/gam disabled on sol9. only
enabled on sol10.

Or just not enabled at all.

I'd personally be all in favor of a coding fix to make disabling the durn
thing simpler(in the fam/gam code)... but the code was just too funky for
my level of concentration, the last time I looked at it.

Implementations/fixes/takeovers welcome. I'm pretty much worn out of
fixing this junk at this point.