Re: [gcmd-dev] Bug #332517 : Fam

[Piotr Eljasiak]

> I checked it with very comparable old hardware, see
> <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332517#c5>
> but i could not reproduce the bug, not with fam nor with gamin.
> 
> The original posting was from 2006-02-25, Assaf replied 2006-03-13.
> That's a year ago. It's very possible distros changed the way they launch 
> file 
> monitors, or something was fixed in libfam itself. For example, in the old 
> days, 
> fam daemon was installed as necessary dependence of gnome-vfs, today it's 
> only 
> libfam. There's also the possibility they increased the monitoring interval.
> 
> Until anybody would come up with a reproduction on a recent distro, 
> I suggest to assume it's obsolete now.

I have got somewhat limited access to Xubuntu+gamin (6.06) old Pentium
machine where the bug is still present. If we could come up to test set
for fam/gamin bottleneck, it'd be possible to run them on that box.


Piotr