Controlling directory polling?

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 14:53, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> Good day,
>
> KDE 3.0.3
>
> The question is.
> Is there any way of turning directory polling off all together?
>
> Perhaps, is there any way to tell the system to _not_ poll certain
> specified directories?
>
> I have automount set up for my floppy and my CD-ROM.
> Whenever I use look at these two automounted directories, they are
> continually polled.
> Especially the floppy is a drag because the polling slows the
> application so that it is useless. The floppy polling kind of freezes
> the entire system, while the polling is done. Then a few seconds
> break where the system works. Then another poll and another "freeze".
>
> Also, even if I go away from the automounted floppy in the app to view
> an other directory, KDE keeps polling the floppy.
>
> The same goes for almost all other ordinary KDE apps, like kate and
> konq.
> Only the konsole hasn't got this problem.
>

I've given up on automount for precisely this reason. I found it particularly 
annoying that the drive was polled when looking at a directory containing a 
link to the automounted device, as well.

Dylan
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