[gamin] gam_server at 14% of cpu for > 12 hours

[Barry Rountree <rountree cs uga edu>]

Hello,

I've occasionally seen gam_server take up much more cpu time than seems 
reasonable, but this is the first time I've had both time and inclination to 
try to help debug it.

After sorting and "uniq -c" a few million lines of debug messages, there 
appear to be a lot of these:

   6534 Event to kded [kdeinit] : 127, 1, .xsession-errors Changed

Hmmm.... 

   rountree malaise:~$ ls -l .xsession-errors
   -rw------- 1 rountree rountree 262071980 2006-09-27 08:48 .xsession-errors

Well, that's a little silly.  And it's just a bunch of

   end from FAM server connection
   invalid length 24902
   invalid length 24902
   invalid length 24902
   invalid length 24902

in that .xsession-errors file.  

Hmmmm.... lots of discussion and a possible workaround here:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gamin/+bug/36581

Closing konqueror calmed things down promptly.

What can I do to help track this down?

Thanks,

Barry Rountree

PS:  kubuntu 6.06.01, gamin and libgamin0 0.1.7-2ubuntu1