Comment 169 for bug 36581

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In , Alexander (alexander-redhat-bugs) wrote :

This bug is "interesting".

Originally there was a bug that caused gamin to really go into a tight 100% cpu
loop, looping over a circular list. However, we now believe that the circular
list bug is fixed, and other reports of this is mainly about gamin using lots of
CPU when polling a large directory or when getting lots of change events from
dnotify (e.g. when downloading something fast).

It would be nice if people seeing this could try to determine what sort of
problem they are seeing. I.E. When this happens, attach to gamin (with debuginfo
installed) and see if its just spinning over one particular list forever.