Re: famd

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri February 22 2008, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Yesterday, I was doing a lot of image editing using Gimp, web page editing
> with Quanta, and viewing the results in Iceweasel. Things started to get
> sluggish, and I noticed famd was sitting at 80% processor time. Restarted
> famd, and all was well again.
>
> Like the OP I have been in the habit of leaving my log-in session running
> for days, and in particular, leaving a number of Iceweasel windows open.
> Last night I shut everything down (but didn't log off), and famd was
> happily asleep this morning.
>
> Keeping it under review...

wow, I just ran TOP, and famd was running 100% CPU useage!
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 4440 pbc       25   0  4564 2196  656 R  100  0.1 990:44.29 famd  


# uptime
 07:51:13 up 1 day,  1:59,  4 users,  load average: 1.03, 1.11, 1.18

# who -uT
root     - tty1         2008-02-21 05:53  old         4657
USER_1      ? :0           2008-02-21 06:01   ?         10978
USER_2    ? :1           2008-02-21 06:02   ?         11342
USER_1      + pts/3        2008-02-21 11:21   .         11105 (:0.0)

so I restarted famd and everything is again OK..

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Paul Cartwright
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