Comment 113 for bug 36581

OK, it happens again as I speak

gamin-0.0.18-1 consumes all CPU
FC3 x86_64
kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 x86_64
Using KDE

1. Top
top - 17:55:19 up 5 days, 6:29, 6 users, load average: 1.21, 0.62,
0.24
Tasks: 94 total, 2 running, 92 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 98.7% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si
Mem: 1024700k total, 980336k used, 44364k free, 159164k
buffers
Swap: 1534168k total, 808k used, 1533360k free, 437340k
cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23049 foobar 25 0 6824 2672 5060 R 97.2 0.3 2:52.77
gam_server
 5144 root 15 0 213m 122m 93m S 1.7 12.2 36:01.05 X
19834 foobar 16 0 154m 23m 150m S 0.7 2.3 2:06.04 kdeinit
    1 root 16 0 4736 616 4524 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.16 init
    2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.39
ksoftirqd/0
    3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.10 events/0
    4 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
    5 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
   42 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
kblockd/0

2. kill -SIGUSR2 23049: the debug file is spitting this:
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
Queue Full
769 lines like this, it seems to print them by little groups every
few seconds.

3. Syslog:
$ sudo grep gam /var/log/messages
Nov 29 14:14:29 lw1 kernel: gam_server[3353]: segfault at
00000001000003f8 rip 0000002a95690920 rsp 0000007fbffff6e0 error 4
Dec 1 16:56:22 lw1 kernel: gam_server[3903]: segfault at
00000006000003f8 rip 0000002a956906b1 rsp 0000007fbffff5b0 error 4

Cheers,

Philippe