On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:33 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
That was my experience with the older fam, the one that was user-space only with no kernel support. I believe the modern one with kernel support is a completely different beast and distinctly improved over the old version. [snip]
This is on my notebook, but I've had the same issue with fam for as long as I can remember on every version of SUSE I've used.
You really should tell us which version of the system and of fam you're using.
I'm using SUSE 10.1 (32bit) with the stock fam-server-2.7.0-7. As I mentioned, I have had the same behaviour with previous versions of SUSE. It seems to be triggered, amongst other things, by writing a big (multiple gigs) file to the filesystem. On my notebook I have my mail in an imap store (using courier-imap). There's just one user, me - so the mailbox is never open more than once at a time (which I understand from the fam and courier docs why courier uses fam). So in my case fam is completely unnecessary. But if I don't have it running courier fills my mail log with fam errors. Thanks Hans