hippocampe Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I just upgraded from 10.1 to 2007. I noticed this program gam_server in the process list. After looking for info on this board and the net, I understand this is part of gamin, a replacement for fam and is supposed to monitor the filesystem for alterations. What I haven't been able to find out is what kind of alterations are we talking about? What is the benefit of running it? I noted that when I open a text file in kwrite and then modify it externally, kwrite does not even notice that the file just changed. So gam_server obviously does not monitor that type of change. I have 6 partitions in the /mnt directory. Sometimes, gam_server takes about 70% of the cpu nonstop. If I kill it, another instance starts immediately. It cannot be disabled because it's not a system service. If I'm right this is part of gnome, I use kde. I cannot remove it because 84 packages need it on my system, including krozat (screensavers). I mean wtf?? Is there a way to disable/remove this without breaking my system? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Did you try a google? Lots of results for this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q...earch&meta= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippocampe Posted January 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Hello ianw1974, That was the first thing I tried ;) Basically, it says that I have to delete/rename the executable if I want to stop it. That's a bit .. ahem.. extreme. That's why I asked in the forum if anyone encountered the same problem and had another solution. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I've noticed gam server before, but never disabled it. I've never noticed it or had it eating resource like yourself though. Have you applied all available updates to your system, in case a fix had been released for the problem you're experiencing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 it's safe to disable. if you want to, go to the mandriva services control panel, find gamin, and stop it, and set it to not run on boot. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 This is a fairly common but seemingly random bug ... I had it once ... I messed about and fixed it but I can't remember how but these links should throw some light... http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313606 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-li...y/msg00196.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 This link I found from Mandriva's official forum: http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewtopic.p...25f8e10e6650945 it is just to delete it. There is no service you can disable to stop it, it doesn't exist in the services list. I've just checked. So, it seems your only way is to rename/delete it so that it doesn't run in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippocampe Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Thanks all for the reply. Just did chmod -x on the executable and it stopped loading at boot. Haven't noticed a problem yet. Whatever task it was meant for, it must not have been that important. It is just annoying that so many packages depend on it, given that I wasn't a huge fan of fam either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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