Bug 124636

Summary: FAM eats all CPU available
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jean-Marc Valin <jean-marc.valin>
Component: famAssignee: Daniel Veillard <veillard>
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Description Jean-Marc Valin 2004-05-28 02:04:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm having problems with fam on my machine (Fedora Core 2). When
running one of my programs and redirecting stdout to a file, fam ends
up eating all the CPU. During a normal run, my program takes 10
seconds of CPU while sneding 6.7 MB of data to stdout (which ends up
in a file). In the meantime, fam ended up using 2 minutes(!!) of CPU:
12x more than the program it's monitoring. The file I'm writing is on
a local filesystem and I have no filemanager open. Also, I've been
able to see that if I remove the prints, fam no longer eats CPU. This
has been confirmed by someone on the FAM list.

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Dell D600 laptop with Pentium-M 1.6 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM
Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2004-07-12 18:57:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124361 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:03:51 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.