doing a "everyting" install, sgi_fam is enabled (in xinetd). It definitely should be disabled.
Unrelated, but... the description comment in the xinetd file for sgi_fam needs a line continuation character.
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
fam is also installed and enabled for a GNOME or KDE workstation installation. It is used by nautilus and konqueror. It also binds only to loopback. I would consider the original report NOTABUG. The xinetd thing looks like a two minute fix-and-rebuild. (I assume this affects how it shows up in ntsysv or something.)
It seems to make things _slower_ on my machine.