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