Comment 149 for bug 36581

Doesn't look like there is any resolution of this issue from reading
the comments above. I have the same problem when dealing with large
amounts of files (up to 100,000). It is pretty reproducible. Note
that I am not trying to view the files themselves, but just look at
directories which contain many files. I understand that, according to
comment 85, using FAM/gamin on a directory with this many files is not
advisable. But, I have seen no comments on how to turn it off. Is
that possible? If so, what are the repercussions?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Unzip archive with 10,000 - 100,000 files in it, into a folder.
2. View the folder (the machine thinks for a while, then reports the
number of files in the folder. Shortly after this gam_server starts
to take 100% of one CPU on a dual Xeon machine).