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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Home Directory Continually Refreshing in Konqueror
  • Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:34:15 +0100

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:48:03PM +0000, Alan Ross wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2003 6:36 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Alan Ross <alan AT rebeluk.com>:
> > > The text displays correctly. The only problem is that the window is
> > > continually refreshing its contents. Possible related - A quick look in
> > > top shows that fam sitting at > 80% cpu usage.
> > >
> > > Alan
> >
> > I've heard of some problems with FAM and system resources/goofiness, may
> > want to try disabling that.
> >
> > -sandalle
>
> I have dispelled fam and recast kdelibs without fam support. Following this
> I
> required to cast all other kde spells to get a working kde again.
> Thankfully
> this has solved the problem. The home directory no longer continually
> refreshes and my system is more responsive.
>
> I could find no reference to this problem on the web (I only did a quick
> google search) and am wondering if the problem is with the sourcemage fam
> setup.
>
> Alan

I remembered reading something about a fam problem some time ago, but
didn't bother to research it more deeply as i didn't have problems with
fam, now i looked it up.
It's not sourcemage related, it's a know problem of the dnotify patch
that is used for fam [0] (note: without dnotify it uses polling, which is
even worse).

Could you (or anyone else that uses kde) try building fam with an
additional line 'export LDFLAGS="-lrt -lpthread"' in the BUILD file (as
suggested in [1]) and see if that fixes the problem?

References:
[0]: http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158
[1]: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/mail_archive/200301/msg00011.html

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Arwed v. Merkatz
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