gamin eats cpu cycles constantly

[Yi Qiang]

gam_server always seems to take around 10% cpu utilization even when the system is idle. This is fine when doing non resource intensive tasks, but if you try to play a game for example, you will notice a 'stutter' (this can be seen in quake4 for example). There have been two upstream releases so far but a quick glance at the ChangeLog doesn't reveal a particular 'fix' for this problem.

Reference:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=74908&highlight=gam_server
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=72160&highlight=gam_server

[Yi Qiang (yqiang)]

btw,
gamin:
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1.5-0ubuntu1

libgamin0: Version: 0.1.5-0ubuntu1

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This bug has bee reported all over the place. One thing it might be helpful to check for is whether dmesg reports a double free, inidicating whether your home directory is being mounted off another machine and whether following the debugging steps mentioned in http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html#Debugging shed any light on the subject.

Also see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313606

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

Yi, Sitsofe, any news on this issue? Bugzilla says it's unconfirmed yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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