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  • From: Alan Ross <alan AT rebeluk.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Home Directory Continually Refreshing in Konqueror
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:01:23 +0000

On Thursday 30 October 2003 9:34 pm, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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

I added the line 'export LDFLAGS="-lrt -lpthread"' to the fam build file.
Cast
fam and recast kdelibs, kdebase, kde* with fam support enabled. This does
indeed appear to have solved the continual refreshing problem.

Many thanks to all involved. I will make a bug for this tommorrow unless
anyone else beats me too it. Must sleep now!

Alan
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Alan Ross <alan AT rebeluk.com>
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