and why is it using 90+% of CPU?


top - 17:39:04 up 2 days, 1:54, 11 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
Tasks: 161 total, 3 running, 158 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 9.8% user, 90.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 904492k total, 852568k used, 51924k free, 135256k buffers
Swap: 915688k total, 6820k used, 908868k free, 277752k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4239 ****** 16 0 1556 1556 912 R 97.4 0.2 98:46.06
/usr/libexec/gam_server

On 2006-02-14, 4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> wrote:
> and why is it using 90+% of CPU?

What is google, and why aren't you using it to find out what gam_server
is?

--keith

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:56:31 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:

> On 2006-02-14, 4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> wrote:
>> and why is it using 90+% of CPU?
>
> What is google, and why aren't you using it to find out what gam_server
> is?
>
> --keith
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin.../msg00004.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00096.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=234318

http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-131268.html

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroup...5-04/0105.html

Lots of people have this question. Funny though, no answers to problem.

I killed it and it restarted. The CPU % is back down now. I'll just
handle it like that in the future.

John

4partee wrote:

> and why is it using 90+% of CPU?
>
>
> top - 17:39:04 up 2 days, 1:54, 11 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
> Tasks: 161 total, 3 running, 158 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 9.8% user, 90.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 904492k total, 852568k used, 51924k free, 135256k buffers
> Swap: 915688k total, 6820k used, 908868k free, 277752k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 4239 ****** 16 0 1556 1556 912 R 97.4 0.2 98:46.06
> /usr/libexec/gam_server

It is part of gamin see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin.../msg00001.html

It is using so much CPU because it appears to have a bug.

Richard

richard wrote:

>> /usr/libexec/gam_server
>
> It is part of gamin see
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gamin.../msg00001.html
>
> It is using so much CPU because it appears to have a bug.

Also from
http://www.gnusolaris.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi//ticket/60

"The FAM-equivalent backend, gamin, does not seem to work well at all on
Solaris platform. This backend is used by several GNOME- related
components, which communicate to it using a set of APIs provided by the
gamin library. The client requests are then processed by the gamin daemon.
For some reasons the clients loop through the request API, which could be
related to either bugs in the gamin library or the daemon itself in
handling the requests. Because GNOME has several components which rely on
this service, the CPU usage gets to 100% upon logging into GNOME, which is
when most of these components launch and begin their requests to the gamin
layer.
A workaround which is currently used today is to disable the gamin library,
such that a bogus error is returned to the client upon processing a
request. This has the effect of stopping further requests from the clients.
The other workaround would be to compile the GNOME components with any FAM
support."

Richard

* Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> writes:

> What is google

That's easy, it's the sound my 3 year old makes when he tries to talk
to me with his mouth full of porridge. :-P

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On 2006-02-15, 4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> wrote:
>
> Lots of people have this question. Funny though, no answers to problem.

Funny though, you found out what gam_server is and that there's a bug
just by using google. Next time you have a problem, you might try
google before posting instead of after, eh? As you found out, it might
not solve your problem, but at least it might tell you that it is a
known problem.

--keith

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On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:06:17 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:

> On 2006-02-15, 4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> wrote:
>>
>> Lots of people have this question. Funny though, no answers to problem.
>
> Funny though, you found out what gam_server is and that there's a bug
> just by using google. Next time you have a problem, you might try
> google before posting instead of after, eh? As you found out, it might
> not solve your problem, but at least it might tell you that it is a
> known problem.
>
> --keith

And now you know too!

Glad I could help. And now a.o.l.s will show up on google as a good
source of information.

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4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> trolled:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:06:17 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:

> > On 2006-02-15, 4partee <spamu@voyager.starfleet> wrote:

> >> Lots of people have this question. Funny though, no answers to
> >> problem.

> > Funny though, you found out what gam_server is and that there's
> > a bug just by using google. Next time you have a problem, you
> > might try google before posting instead of after, eh? As you
> > found out, it might not solve your problem, but at least it
> > might tell you that it is a known problem.

> And now you know too!

> Glad I could help. And now a.o.l.s will show up on google as a good
> source of information.

Well done. Keith Keller is a hypocrite.

cordially, as always,

rm




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