gam_server uses too much CPU power after having copied a file

[Andre Heßling]

I am using Kubuntu Dapper with the newest updates installed and whenever I try to copy a file using Krusader, gam_server uses about 10% of my CPU at a constant level. This will stop if I quit Krusader but reoccurs if I restart Krusader. When I kill the process gam_server and restart Krusader, the CPU usage is ok but again jumps to 10% if I copy a file again. This also happens after I start amaroK.

What I also noticed is that gam_server often uses up to 10% of my CPU when I am just surfing the web. The usage drops immediately but these peaks exist.
This hasn't occured under Breezy and I also compiled my own version of gamin using the source file from gamin's homepage.
None of these problems occured with my "own" version of gamin.
Then I don't even notice the process in "top" because it doesn't even use the CPU very much.

So I draw the conclusion that something must be wrong with the ubuntu or debian specific package of gamin.
Maybe there is something wrong with the polling options?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What version of Ubuntu do you use? Does it happen with GNOME? What version of gam tarball did you build?

[Andre Heßling (ahessling)]

I built this version:
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources/gamin-0.1.7.tar.gz

I am using Kubuntu Dapper Drake and therefore I don't use GNOME. But I don't believe that this is a KDE or GNOME specific problem since the self-built package works and the package that is included in the dapper repository doesn't - at least not for me.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have the issue if you rebuild the package?

[Andre Heßling (ahessling)]

I can't reproduce it any more. I rebuilt the package included in the repository but I couldn't notice any differences between this package, the binary package and the source package from gamin's homepage.
So CPU usage seems to be ok but I still don't know why it jumped to such a high level a few days ago.

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