Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 27 2008, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >  the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but when I restarted it, > > root owns it. > > I don't know about this particular issue, but I found famd to > be a constant source of problems. Gamin is better, but not &

Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-ef|grep kmail found her process, killed it. CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to her > login, still locked up. nothing works. CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to mine. > > # ps -ef|grep famd USER_ 4409 1 86 10:01 ?07:32:13 > /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > /etc/init.d/fam restart > > everyth

Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
found her process, killed it. > CTRL-ALT-F8 to get to her login, still locked up. nothing works. > CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to mine. > > # ps -ef|grep famd > USER_ 4409 1 86 10:01 ?07:32:13 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > /etc/init.d/fam restart > > eve

famd strikes again

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
back to mine. # ps -ef|grep famd USER_ 4409 1 86 10:01 ?07:32:13 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 /etc/init.d/fam restart everything works fine again.. # ps -ef|grep famd root 18821 1 0 18:42 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but w

Re: famd

2008-02-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 22 2008, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Yesterday, I was doing a lot of image editing using Gimp, web page editing > with Quanta, and viewing the results in Iceweasel. Things started to get > sluggish, and I noticed famd was sitting at 80% processor time. Restarted > famd,

Re: famd

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22 Feb at 4:37 Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu February 21 2008 19:32:09 Jamin Davis wrote: > > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running > > > owned

Re: famd

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu February 21 2008 19:32:09 Jamin Davis wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: > > I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running > > owned by me. All that I saw was famd. > > I did a pkill famd, went back to my KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , &

Re: famd

2008-02-21 Thread Jamin Davis
Paul Cartwright wrote: I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running owned by me. All that I saw was famd. I did a pkill famd, went back to my KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , put in my password, and voila, I was logged in. Is famd necessary? is famd causing this

famd

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
y me. All that I saw was famd. I did a pkill famd, went back to my KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , put in my password, and voila, I was logged in. Is famd necessary? is famd causing this? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Wei Chen
On 4/14/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:10 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > >> After rebooting it again, I found famd still ran as me. Is famd supposed > >>

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:10 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > >> After rebooting it again, I found famd still ran as me. Is famd supposed > >> to behave like this? I never think a daemon that start

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: >> After rebooting it again, I found famd still ran as me. Is famd supposed >> to behave like this? I never think a daemon that starts from init script >> should change itself to a normal user privilege. And a

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:37 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wei Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just found that the famd process is now running with my user-id: > > > > [snip] > > root 2987

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-12 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I just found that the famd process is now running with my user-id: > > [snip] > root 2987 0.0 0.1 4924 848 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 > /usr/sbin/sshd > root 2993 0.0 0.1 7044

Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-12 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just found that the famd process is now running with my user-id: [snip] root 2987 0.0 0.1 4924 848 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 2993 0.0 0.1 7044 776 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 /usr/sbin/winbindd root

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:24:34PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > AFAIK fam uses inotify (or dnotify, I don't recall which) > when available. It would appear that "dnotify" appears in the FAM source but "inotify" does not. Looking at (and trying to remember) how dnotify works, it would seem it ho

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-25 Thread Felipe Sateler
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:51:46AM +0200, user local wrote: >> ... or, if you want to umount/eject (right click on >> gnome/KDE desktop/panel icon), you will get an error >> message... checking w/ lsof you will find that the lone >> thing that locks the mount point is the fam

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 08:51:46AM +0200, user local wrote: > ... or, if you want to umount/eject (right click on > gnome/KDE desktop/panel icon), you will get an error > message... checking w/ lsof you will find that the lone > thing that locks the mount point is the fam daemon. :D Yup: that'd be

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-24 Thread user local
2006/12/5, Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: KDE and Gnome both use it and since it provides notification for file system changes it serves a useful function. For example if you have Amarok or Rhythmbox open and from another application or from the command line copy a song into your music director

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-12-05 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:34:50 -0500 Matthew Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get a larger list - see below. Also, that list includes Gamin, which > actually conflicts with fam. In fact, I'm confused. If I try to install > fam, it tries to rip out a lot of Gnome stuff, and some other thing

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > charles norwood wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > >> > >>>Hi list.

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
charles norwood wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: Hi list. What applications use famd? man -k famd famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon Thanks, Chuck

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread charles norwood
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > > Hi list. > > What applications use famd? > > man -k famd > > famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon > > T

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > Hi list. > What applications use famd? > man -k famd > famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon > Thanks, > Chuck $ apt-cache rdepends fam fam Reverse Depends: stopmotion gamin d

what applications use famd?

2006-11-28 Thread charles norwood
Hi list. What applications use famd? man -k famd famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon Thanks, Chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
Thanks Michael - I normally just restart it using # /etc/init.d/fam restart but I was wondering why it was happening. Good to hear that someone else has the same experience - I guess it must be a bug in famd? Thanks, Yasir Hello Yasir! I've got a current version of Etch and

Re: famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Yasir! > I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around > evening time) famd > starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does > this for a long time. > > Is this normal? What's it doing? I do not

famd using up lots of CPU time

2005-12-28 Thread Yasir Assam
I've got a current version of Etch and I've noticed that every day (around evening time) famd starts using up lots of CPU time (e.g. 95%, according to top) and it does this for a long time. Is this normal? What's it doing? Thanks, Yasir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Does famd interferes with PostgreSQL?

2005-12-20 Thread Andy
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if famd (the file alteration monitor, which is installed standard (?) by Debian Sarge) interfere with PostgreSQL? I am having major problems with the performance of PostgreSQL on my machine... Since it updated recently, I have noticed famd

Re: Does famd interferes with PostgreSQL?

2005-11-06 Thread Elton Algera
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:14:40PM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if famd (the file alteration monitor, which is > installed standard (?) by Debian Sarge) interfere with PostgreSQL? > > I am having major problems with the performance of PostgreS

Does famd interferes with PostgreSQL?

2005-11-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Does anyone know if famd (the file alteration monitor, which is installed standard (?) by Debian Sarge) interfere with PostgreSQL? I am having major problems with the performance of PostgreSQL on my machine... -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:17, Greg Folkert wrote: > Vi, even then it might just not be noticed. I am thinking that you are > not clear as to what FAMD just is. > > --- > Description: File Alteration Monitor > FAM monitors files and directories, notifying inter

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread botio
> > > > Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system > > monitor shows > > it takes about 99% of the cycles. > > I've seen this too, now I use gamin on sid as an alternative to fam and I don't have this problem anymore. also, that'

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:39 -0500, Vi Arguelles wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > > my user. I think it should run as root... Saverio, if it ran as root for

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > my user. I think it should run as root... > Mmm, I did it once. I didn't kill it kill it. I just restarted the daemon and all was well. I had

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Yuri Gorshkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saverio Trioni wrote: > I just observed it happens when I open big documents with evince. Does > it happen to you also? Maybe it's a bug in Evince and should be filed. I don't use Evince (anyway, what's this?) and had encountered that bug one or two

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Saverio Trioni
El 25/07/2005, a las 11:27, phyrster escribió: Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. I just observed it happens when I open big documents with evince. Does it happen to you also? Maybe it's a b

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Saverio Trioni
El 25/07/2005, a las 11:27, phyrster escribió: Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. My system configuration is Sarge (mixed with Sid) on an Athlon Tbird. What has caused this problem and how to pin it

famd hogs all CPU time

2005-07-25 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system monitor shows it takes about 99% of the cycles. My system configuration is Sarge (mixed with Sid) on an Athlon Tbird. What has caused this problem and how to pin it down? regards bxuef -- dhammapada says

Re: famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread rich lott
the mount point is not showing in konqueror, and no > > files are opened on the share by any other application. > > > > In fact, the only way I've found to unmount the files is to > > > > $ su root > > $ umount -l /mount/point > > > > When I used >

Re: famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread Clive Menzies
en the mount point is not showing in konqueror, and no files > are opened on the share by any other application. > > In fact, the only way I've found to unmount the files is to > > $ su root > $ umount -l /mount/point > > When I used > $ lsof | grep /mount/point > &g

famd won't let go of my samba shares! (myref: rl3a26may)

2005-05-26 Thread rich lott
re by any other application. In fact, the only way I've found to unmount the files is to $ su root $ umount -l /mount/point When I used $ lsof | grep /mount/point I found that famd has the mount point open/engaged. Kill famd and I can unmount the share. But then famd is kinda useful.

Re: famd eating 100% CPU?

2004-08-27 Thread Christoph Wegscheider
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that famd is eating (almost) 100% CPU, before that I > didn't even know such a thing existed. Anybody has any ideas why would > it go crazy? No, but I just removed famd and everything worked as before.

Re: famd eating 100% CPU?

2004-08-27 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 27 August 2004 09:59, Erik Steffl wrote: >I just noticed that famd is eating (almost) 100% CPU, before that I > didn't even know such a thing existed. Anybody has any ideas why would > it go crazy? > > top says: > >PID USER PR NI VIRT RE

famd eating 100% CPU?

2004-08-27 Thread Erik Steffl
I just noticed that famd is eating (almost) 100% CPU, before that I didn't even know such a thing existed. Anybody has any ideas why would it go crazy? top says: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 19629 erik 25 0 3616 1364 2572 R 87.4 0.2 510:

Re: famd runaway??

2004-03-13 Thread Larry Geralds
According to the reponses to the article below, you may not need famd anymore. I removed mine and haven't noticed any problems. See responses to this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/debian-kde-200401/msg00253.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: famd runaway??

2004-03-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
* Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:12:21:12:20-0600] scribed: > Debian sarge... > > My computer has slowed to a crawl, can't even start konqueror. When I look at > the processes, famd is using about 73% of the system. > > Anyone know what might b

Re: famd runaway??

2004-03-13 Thread Larry Geralds
Debian sarge... Same thing with Sid. My computer has slowed to a crawl, can't even start konqueror. When I look at the processes, famd is using about 73% of the system. Anyone know what might be wrong? Don't know. Wish I did. I restart it: su -c "/etc/init.d/fam restart"

famd runaway??

2004-03-12 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian sarge... My computer has slowed to a crawl, can't even start konqueror. When I look at the processes, famd is using about 73% of the system. Anyone know what might be wrong? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE

Re: Can't umount SD card (famd)

2003-09-06 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Vendredi 5 Septembre 2003 22:54, Stefan Waidele jun. a déclamé : > > I can't umount a SD card from my drive, famd uses it. > Fam monitors files & directories for changes. > I guess that some application told fam to watch /mnt/carte and > a) did not tell fam to stop watc

Re: Can't umount SD card (famd)

2003-09-05 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Christophe Courtois wrote: I can't umount a SD card from my drive, famd uses it. I don't really know what is this famd, Fam monitors files & directories for changes. I guess that some application told fam to watch /mnt/carte and a) did not tell fam to stop watching when it fin

Can't umount SD card (famd)

2003-09-05 Thread Christophe Courtois
I can't umount a SD card from my drive, famd uses it. I don't really know what is this famd, I d'ont really understand its goal in the man page, and uninstalling it would be a bit harsh. "Sync" does not help. I haven't found anything useful on Google. I had the s