Comment 144 for bug 36581

w.r.t. comment #84

I looked at the logs, you are doing 2 bad things:
  1/ you ask FAM to watch a directory with 10,000+ files in it
  2/ that directory is under /mnt

 1/ means that when gam server needs to check for modifications it
need to stat all files in the directory to check for changes, which
amounts to 10,000 stat() call and checks
 2/ gamin does not use the kernel notification API for directories
which may be temporary mount files like /mnt/... so it uses a 1 second
timeout and recheck every time for changes.

  the conjunction of 1/ and 2/ means gam_server spend its time
checking your files. It's not really a software loop, not a bug
but how it was designed at the moment.
  It is not the same problem as why this bugzilla entry was opened.
You can probably avoid the problem by removing either 1/ or 2/
but I can't find a fix to your problem, based on the fact that
kernel dnotify must not be used on /mnt/... files and that maintaining
the FAM semantic on a 10,000 entry directory need to stat all entries
in that directory if the kernel can't tell they were not modified.

   You're pushing the FAM API to the limit your computer can handle
it, so this doesn't work well...

Daniel