Bug#333205: gamin: gam_server eating 100% cpu

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:17:50PM +0100, EagleCros wrote:
> Seems that I didn't have to wait long for it to come up again.
> 
> Right now I have had a gam_server using up all the cpu it can get for
> about 20 minutes now. strace reveals another loop, different from the
> one on saturday, which cycles through more files, all of them existing.
> 
> By the way, and in case this information is good for anything, I am a
> KDE user, but sometimes use non-kde applications, such as Evolution,
> Mozilla and Grip (the ones I recall having used today).

What kernel are you using ?  

If you send SIGUSR2 to the gamin_server that's 100% it will create a file in
/tmp called gamin_debug_XXXXX (sending it again will stop it). Can you mail the
info that's being dumped in that file (not more then a few hundred lines
please)

  Sjoerd
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