Re: [gamin] greedy gam_server

[Dan <dmisc charter net>]

Hi Daniel,

       I would be glad to let you login to my machine when
this problem happens.   This is a common problem on my
machine that seems to happen sometimes shortly after
a yum update.  The machine is completely unusable for
30-45 minutes.  I move the mouse and it takes 30 seconds
for the mouse pointer to move during this time it is consuming
swap space like crazy (like 2GB worth).  Once it settles down
it still is consuming swap but a slower rate until I run out and
have to reboot.  As I said you could login my machine after
this happens.   What can we do to help you solve this problem?
Fedora 6.

All the best,
Dan

On Saturday 04 November 2006 23:50, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:52:36PM -0500, Barry Rountree wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 November 2006 10:19, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > > You and I may be the only ones on this list.  Good luck, 
> > > bruce
> > 
> > Well, there don't appear to be any developers around....
> 
>   I posted a new release 0.1.8 no later than 5 days ago
>     http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/news.html
> I can't comment on problems I have no idea how to reproduce and sometimes
> without any description 'it's greedy', yeah sure it depends what the other
> parts of the software ask it to do. There are tools to help debug on the
> client machine:
>     http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html
> For questions like "how do I remove it" it's a desktop infrastructure
> problem and check with the other tools maintainers or your distro.
> I could explain why gamin sucks, it's based on what it was asked to do
> and what is available to implement it, I don't think anybody care, it's
> just simpler to complain, right ?
> 
> Daniel
>