Re: fam - what is it?

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Friday 18 June 2004 09:42, J. Preiss wrote:
> Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2004 14:31 schrieb Leandro Guimaraens Faria
> Corsetti
>
> Dutra:
> > Em Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:30:08 +0200, richard lyons escreveu:
> > > a file alteration monitor.  but why?
> >
> > 	So that applications – including file managers in particular
> > and desktop environments in general – get to know about file
> > alterations by other apps.
>
> To say it by example: I create a new file in konqi, and kdevelop
> knows it without reloading something and without the need to poll
> directies for new files, right?

Okay, clear enough.  But why does it go mad and grab all the processor 
time occasionally?  Can that be a result of pilot error, or is it 
simply a bug?  If the latter, I can restart it, now I know who is 
misbehaving.  If the former, I could reform my ways if I knew what I 
did wrong.

-- 
richard