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Re: fam taking up cpu, do I need it?



On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:07 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> When I installed Bluefish, I had a bit of a jam with the fam / gamin
> conflict (Bluefish / GNOME wanted one and Xfce wanted the other). At
> the time, I didn't really understand what they did, but based on this
> thread and your comments in particular, I gather that when I leave a
> file open for a while in Bluefish and meanwhile make a quick edit with
> vi and then return to Bluefish, the Bluefish notification that the file
> has been modified by another process is based on info received from
> gamin.

I think you only need fam to monitor remote files, NFS and such, GNOME
only depends on libfam (and recommends fam I believe) so it's safe to
remove. 

Local file monitoring is usually done with inotify now.

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