[Thunar-dev] Thunar very slow on FC6

[Rodrigo Coacci]

On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/30/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > >>> I've noticed that sometimes Thunar (and Xfdesktop) take much time to
> start
> > >>> thanks to FAM. Check if you have FAM running and if you do, try to
> stop FAM
> > >>> service and then see if Thunar loads faster.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, Rodrigo. What is FAM? How can I turn it off?
> > >
> > > FAM is File Alteration Monitor,  thunar/xfdesktop uses it for
> > > "auto-refreshing" the dir/files listing. It's usually a service, so a
> "sudo
> > > /etc/init.d/fam stop" should do the job for testing.
> > > I don't know if FC6 uses FAM or Gamin, (gamin is almost the samething
> as
> > > FAM), so you should check at your distro which on it uses.
> >
> > Right, and if you stop it, then thunar and xfdesktop won't be able to
> > tell when files are created, deleted, or changed, without the user doing
> > a manual refresh.  So I wouldn't recommend that.
> >
> > Better would be to switch to using gamin instead of FAM, but how to do
> > so on $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE is an exercise left to the Googler.
>
> No luck, Brian:
>
> # rpm -qi fam
> package fam is not installed
> # rpm -qi gamin
> Name        : gamin                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.1.7                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 8.fc6                         Build Date: Mon 20 Nov
> 2006 11:03:45 AM WET
> Install Date: Mon 04 Dec 2006 10:20:04 PM WET      Build Host:
> hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com
> Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM:
> gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.src.rpm
> Size        : 366536                           License: LGPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 04 Dec 2006 02:02:50 PM WET, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
> Summary     : Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API
> Description :
> This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration
> monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide
> daemon.
> #
>
> Paul
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So FC6 probably uses gamin, and since my problems were with FAM, I don't
know if gamin suffers from it also.

Brian: I suggested him to stop FAM just for testing purposes, to see if it
was his problem or not.

-- 
Cheers,
      Rodrigo
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