fam taking up cpu, do I need it?

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Recently, I noticed that fam was taking up quite a bit of my CPU on 
Debian Testing running 2.6.18 kernel. This happened especially when I 
was connected to a webdav server and had remote files listed in 
konqueror. Going through some past list message here and also through 
google, I concluded I can try just uninstalling it. So far, after 
removing fam, my system hasn't slowed down as before. So, why would I 
need fam if having it just causes a problem and not having it apparently 
hasn't troubled me at all?

->HS