[kde-freebsd] kde4 and fam

[Andriy Gapon]

on 12/09/2009 16:42 Dima Panov said the following:
> On Saturday 12 September 2009 23:35:56 Martin Wilke wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 12:30:08PM +0200, Alberto Villa wrote:
>>> On Saturday 12 September 2009 10:37:58 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>> 2). maybe we could change the default method to FAM or change default
>>>>  polling interval to something greater or, at least, prominently notify
>>>>  users - rescanning all directories every 0.5 seconds creates
>>>> noticeable CPU load.
>>> agreed: seeing a 50% cpu usage when starting your fresh kde is not what
>>> the casual user, which doesn't know about kde at freebsd wiki, would
>>> expect...
>> Have fun with that. KDE is a lot slower with kde fam, and FreeBSD's fam is
>> also broken so please test and you'll see we use here the best solutions.
> 
> He-he.. I've tried to use gamin with all releases since 4.1 for testing purposes. 
> Really, KDE starts 4-5 times slowly and use more than 50% CPU while running. 

Sorry to stop all the fun, but my suggestion on FAM was valid only in the case
FAM problem was fixed. Otherwise, I proposed increasing stat polling interval.


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Andriy Gapon