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1. Proposed title of this feature request
Configuration of Gamin
3. What is the nature and description of the request?
Customer has requested better Red Hat documentation about Gamin, including configuration of it
the documentation on the gamin page is no very detailed either
https://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html
4. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
gam_server was monitoring NFS shares that it did not need to, forcing it to consume a high amount of system resources. Needed a proper way to configure it to ignore the shares
5. How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)
just providing documentation on making changes to gamin
6. For each functional requirement listed, specify how Red Hat and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully implemented.
7. Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat Bugzilla?
no?
possibly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332753
8. Does the customer have any specific timeline dependencies and which release would they like to target (i.e. RHEL5, RHEL6)?
no
9. Is the sales team involved in this request and do they have any additional input?
no
10. List any affected packages or components.
gamin
11. Would the customer be able to assist in testing this functionality if implemented?
n/a
FAM (gamin) is currently used for monitoring NFS filesystems, but was not before RHEL 6.8, see Bug 725178. Unfortunately, it causes various issues (Bug 1385040, and Bug 1332753).
See the following comment about gamin configuration, however, it still consumes more resources than before:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1385040#c20
GLib might be temporarily downgraded to glib2-2.28.8-4.el6, or /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgiofam.so removed in order to provide former behavioral, but this is not definitely recommended solution...
I am afraid we need some change for GLib (i.e. backport GIO_USE_FILE_MONITOR variable, use FAM monitor only for home dirs, or so...). Colin?