[arch-general] famd problems
Famd has always been more problematic then useful for me. On random occasions after i plugged a mp3 player or an external usb drive it would just start using cpu @ 100% and there was no change at all. I had to kill the process. Just now i plugged my USB drive and wanted to copy something. CPU usage was 100% and iostat reported <3MB/s rate non sequential! I checked the processes and as expected ntfs-3g driver was using most but famd was there too! So i nicely killed famd once again... and transfer rate went @ ~22MB/s as expected Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it. I'm doing a regular -Syu and this problem was present ... since like forever Any explanation to this? Also i'm using xfce, 2GB ram, separate physical system drive Many thanks
Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 00:45:12 schrieb _saiko:
Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it.
Try using gamin. I just added it to [community]. It has some advantages over fam like you do not need a daemon anymore. -- http://www.archlinux.de
On Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 00:45 _saiko wrote: Sorry, i use kde, so i can only say what i have read without own experiences.
Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it.
The german arch wiki about xfce [1] said that gamin can do the job too but this lines be not in the english arch wiki. Gamin is in the community repo and so you can give it a try with this (if you have the community repo active): # pacman -Rd fam && pacman -S gamin The german wiki said that there is no other action (rc.conf and starting a daemon) necessary. Sometimes you have to restart the X server after it. To be more on the safe side you can search first in the forum (http://forum.xfce.org) for relevant things about gamin. Good luck, Attila [1] http://wiki.archlinux.de/?title=Xfce#Desktop_wird_nicht_aktualisiert.3F
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 00:45 +0100, _saiko wrote:
Famd has always been more problematic then useful for me. On random occasions after i plugged a mp3 player or an external usb drive it would just start using cpu @ 100% and there was no change at all. I had to kill the process.
Just now i plugged my USB drive and wanted to copy something. CPU usage was 100% and iostat reported <3MB/s rate non sequential! I checked the processes and as expected ntfs-3g driver was using most but famd was there too! So i nicely killed famd once again... and transfer rate went @ ~22MB/s as expected
Is there a way to live without famd since all it brings are problems for me? It's required by many things so i can't just remove it.
I'm doing a regular -Syu and this problem was present ... since like forever
Any explanation to this? Also i'm using xfce, 2GB ram, separate physical system drive
Many thanks
New applications can use inotify too and don't need fam at all for filesystem monitoring. I do have fam installed as a dependency for gnome-vfs on my system, but I don't have the daemon running. As long as you don't run the daemon, there's nothing wrong with fam. The only reason to use fam nowadays is when you have an NFS mounted homedir that can't do inotify.
Jan de Groot wrote:
New applications can use inotify too and don't need fam at all for filesystem monitoring. I do have fam installed as a dependency for gnome-vfs on my system, but I don't have the daemon running. As long as you don't run the daemon, there's nothing wrong with fam. The only reason to use fam nowadays is when you have an NFS mounted homedir that can't do inotify.
thanks! That's the answer i needed Since.. i can't remove fam because its libs are needed for some apps i use regularly inotify is included in the arch kernel right?
2007/12/28, _saiko
Jan de Groot wrote:
New applications can use inotify too and don't need fam at all for filesystem monitoring. I do have fam installed as a dependency for gnome-vfs on my system, but I don't have the daemon running. As long as you don't run the daemon, there's nothing wrong with fam. The only reason to use fam nowadays is when you have an NFS mounted homedir that can't do inotify.
thanks! That's the answer i needed Since.. i can't remove fam because its libs are needed for some apps i use regularly inotify is included in the arch kernel right?
Sure, it's a standard kernel interface. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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_saiko
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Attila
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Jan de Groot
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Pierre Schmitz
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Roman Kyrylych