Bug#332222: SV: Re: Bug#332222: kdelibs4c2: kde constantly polls my harddrive
--- Christopher Martin
<christopher.martin@utoronto.ca> skrev:
> On October 5, 2005 08:19, Josh Metzler wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 03:11 am, Anders
> Bergström wrote:
> > > Package: kdelibs4c2
> > > Version: 4:3.4.2-4
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > My harddrive constantly flashes after starting
> KDE. I suspect KDirWatch
> > > is polling. This does not happen with my
> self-compiled 3.5 beta. I've
> > > tried both gamin and libfam but it has not
> helped.
> >
> > I want to confirm that I also have noticed my
> harddrive activity light
> > constantly flashing since upgrading to kde 3.4.
> It did not do so with
> > kde 3.3.2.
>
> I can't confirm this on my system, oddly enough. In
> theory, KDE should use
> famd/gamin if installed, and if not dnotify, and if
> that isn't available
> polling. What does removing both the gamin and fam
> (not libfam) packages,
> then restarting, accomplish? I don't suppose trying
> the latest 2.6.12
> kernel would make a difference? Also worth trying
> would be stopping the
> KDED Media Manager, in the Control Centre's Service
> Manager (though it is
> for removable media...).
>
> Cheers,
> Christopher Martin
>
The flashing of the harddrive went away when I
disabled the mediamanager. So that seems to be the
problem.
When I only have libfam0 installed my selfcompiled 3.5
says its polling and with fam installed it uses fam.
What happens in the 3.4.2 installation I don't know
since there is no debug output.
Anders
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