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Re: [SLE] Damn Fam!
- From: Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:27:45 +0200
- Message-id: <1122064065.25734.6.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 07:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> From time to time with no pattern I can discern, I'll find an instance
> of "fam" running consuming as much CPU as it can get. It bears my UID
> but can only be killed by root.
This is the file alteration monitoring (or something like that) daemon.
> Does anyone know why this happens and / or how to prevent it?
rcfam stop
I have searched high and low for the rationale behind this, and why it
goes bonkers every now and again, and the only sensible use I've read
about is when running imap servers, if you're allowing multiple logins
to the same account.
What annoys me to no end, is that courier fills your mail log with
thousands of error messages if fam isn't running, and I haven't been
able to force courier *not* *to* *log* - I don't need it to log in most
of my installations.
--
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com
> From time to time with no pattern I can discern, I'll find an instance
> of "fam" running consuming as much CPU as it can get. It bears my UID
> but can only be killed by root.
This is the file alteration monitoring (or something like that) daemon.
> Does anyone know why this happens and / or how to prevent it?
rcfam stop
I have searched high and low for the rationale behind this, and why it
goes bonkers every now and again, and the only sensible use I've read
about is when running imap servers, if you're allowing multiple logins
to the same account.
What annoys me to no end, is that courier fills your mail log with
thousands of error messages if fam isn't running, and I haven't been
able to force courier *not* *to* *log* - I don't need it to log in most
of my installations.
--
Kind regards
Hans du Plooy
SagacIT (Pty) Ltd
hansdp at sagacit dot com
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