[Digikam-devel] [Bug 162535] startup is extremely slow when famd is running

[Marcel Wiesweg]

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------- Additional Comments From marcel.wiesweg gmx de  2008-05-24 15:49 -------
Digikam is setting up a KDirWatch to monitor the directories it manages for added/removed files while it is running. That's all digikam is doing: Add a directory to the KDirWatch object.

KDirWatch from kdelibs can use different methods to watch files, one of them famd.

There has been a bug report about too many open file descriptors when using IIRC the inotify method, but I am not aware of a famd problem. Digikam is pushing the boundaries of dir watching by creating many watches, but from within digikam we cannot do too much about it. Kdelibs decides to use fam, and obviously this takes so much time. You can verify this by commenting out the three lines in digikam/albummanger.cpp containing "d->dirWatch->addDir"