[gamin] greedy gam_server




Hi,

I have a process called 'gam_server' which is making a nuscience of itself (hogging CPU, reappearing after I kill it...). How do I stop this?

The great and wonderful interweb seems to be telling me this is something to do with Gamin, and i've possibly got it kicking around because I carelessly used nautilus earlier. Your site and the FAM one appear to confirm that its something that should only be running if I'm using gui file browsers.

So.

Q. What is a File Alteration Monitor and why might I want it running?
A. Something to do with gui file browsers, (why isn't the refresh button good enough?)

Q. If I'm not using a gui browser, is there any reason at all why I might want the gam_server process running?
A. I don't think so...

Q. What should I do about an over-excited gam_server process?
A. Killing it won't help, another one will just appear. Nice-ing it helps a bit.

And the one I'm really interested in:
Q. How do I disable gamin permanantly?


I'm using Fedora core 4, with KDE. Don't know what version of gamin I have - I don't know how to check. There does not appear to be a file called 'gamin' on my machine. I located gam_server in /usr/libexec, but it didn't do anything useful with --versin or --help. I've just updated though, so it should be recent if its something that yum will be picking up.

Apologies for display of ignorance; I don't like it when processes I don't understand use significant resources. Searching for 'gam_server' turned up lots of people basically asking the same question - what is this thing, why is it hogging my computer and how can I get rid of it. While there were answers there for other linux distros, they talk about an /etc/gamin/gaminrc file. I have no gamin/ directory in /etc and couldn't find any file called gaminrc.

Is this worthy of a FAQ?

Thanks,
Julie



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