Ok, it a file alteration monitor. but why?
Kmail froze up in horror at a trivial post I tried to send. Kmail
does this occasionally, but this time there was only one xterm and
kmail running. So, I looked at top and pamd was king of the castle.
Eight hours later, nothing had changed:
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top - 01:24:04 up 1 day, 22:29, 2 users, load average: 1.05, 1.08, 1.05
Tasks: 91 total, 5 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 27.3% user, 72.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 192076k total, 185932k used, 6144k free, 34448k buffers
Swap: 982792k total, 8484k used, 974308k free, 57540k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
756 richard 17 0 1752 1724 1116 R 97.7 0.9 2048:12 famd
19253 root 13 0 1068 1068 840 R 1.3 0.6 6:41.74 top
1436 root 5 -10 22584 11m 3020 S 1.0 6.3 6:36.99 XFree86
1 root 8 0 508 476 452 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.29 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.86 keventd
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I killed kmail, wondering if it had started famd doing whatever it
was up to. But still top showed the same picture. So I restarted fam,
and, hey presto:
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top - 01:32:25 up 1 day, 22:38, 2 users, load average: 0.61, 0.92, 0.98
Tasks: 81 total, 1 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 97.7% idle
Mem: 192076k total, 163920k used, 28156k free, 36044k buffers
Swap: 982792k total, 8456k used, 974336k free, 58912k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
15370 root 15 0 1060 1060 840 R 1.0 0.6 0:00.25 top
773 root 10 0 580 540 488 S 0.3 0.3 0:19.48 gpm
1436 root 8 -10 22524 11m 3020 S 0.3 6.3 6:39.79 XFree86
1 root 8 0 508 476 452 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.29 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.86 keventd
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So, my question is: why is fam running? How does it get into this
greedy mode? What is it really for?
I notice that keventd remains there after the only kde application
was killed. Is this one of the processes that kde apps leave running,
as mentioned by someone yesterday?
TIA
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richard
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