Comment 106 for bug 36581

So this is interesting, I have a huge (5K+ files), unorganized directory of
photographs on /mnt/ata0/www-images, and I don't have any .gamin config, so it's
polling since it's in /mnt/*, and the log file viewed after using the SIGUSR2
signal confirms that.

So I open up Konqueror (I'm using KDE) on that directory and see gam_server
using 20% of one CPU, it's constantly polling. Then I open open one of the
photos with Kuickshow, and use the page up/page down keys to move back and forth
between images. Now gam_server's using 40% of one CPU. I open another Kwickshow
and repeat the previous step and gam_server's utilization goes to 79%. Another
Kwickshow, another 20% utilization.

Is this just an optimization issue? I'm assuming Konqueror and Kwickshow are
both gamin clients. Could gam_server be polling the same directory once for each
client?