[Thunar-dev] Thunar very slow on FC6

[Paul Smith]

On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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.
> > > #
> >
> > 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.
>
> In addition, I would like to mention that I am suspecting that Thunar
> also collides with VMware, as FC6 cannot shutdown VMware server at
> shutdown time after having I used Thunar and not VMware, under XFCE.

After a reboot, thunar seems to be working as fast as it is
publicized! Congratulations to its developers for the great work!

Paul