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

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:32:22 +0200
Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. Makes sense, since I don't have fam installed (gamin instead).

Celejar