Bug#385344: gnome-panel consume 100% CPU when GAMIN is use instead FAM

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Sep 1 12:22:50 UTC 2006


Le jeudi 31 août 2006 à 18:14 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 19:52 +0200, hatori a écrit :
> > Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> > 
> > > Are you using some NFS-mounted directories, especially /home? This is
> > > the only case where fam/gamin can be used by gnome-panel, theoretically.
> > Not at all, my /home is an EXT3 partition of my local drive and I've
> > none NFS-mounted directories.
> 
> OK, so something weird is going on.

I think I get it. This happens whenever you try to monitor a file that
doesn't exist. As do_is_local always returns FALSE in this case,
fam/gamin is used instead of inotify.

Solution: fix do_is_local (file-method.c:1129).
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