Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 07:59:11 +0200 From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Jason Reid <jason@jasonreid.org>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes Message-ID: <1241157551.1580.104.camel@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <1241072093.28498.280.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1241054963.2788.6.camel@localhost> <1241072093.28498.280.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Am Donnerstag, den 30.04.2009, 02:14 -0400 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 21:29 -0400, Jason Reid wrote: > > Hello, > > > > >From time to time Nautilus will not keep up with directories as the > > files change. I cannot pinpoint the exact cause, but I can, for example, > > "touch newfile" in a directory or on my Desktop, and Nautilus will not > > show it until I open a Nautilus window to that directory/desktop and > > click View -> Reload. > > > > Filesystem polling works fine after a reboot. Right now I have been up > > for 4 days and just noticed, but it's stopped working as quickly as an > > hour after boot. This is not a new problem with 2.26 and is something > > I've experienced since at least 2.20. My system is FreeBSD 7.1-p4 i386 > > using a ZFS disk, but I've seen the same problem on the same computer > > under an old installation using UFS. > > > > Some Googling reveals that Nautilus uses devel/gamin to poll changes > > which in turn uses kqueue by default. The port has a compile-time option > > for GAM_POLLER that I do not have enabled. Konqueror, however has never > > exhibited this problem. > > > > The closest bug report I was able to find was > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130859 from 2004 which I > > don't believe is applicable. It discusses gamin 0.0.x, and I use > > 0.1.10_1. > > > > My kern.maxfiles is 25000. kern.openfiles reports 10735, and "fstat | > > grep gam_server | wc -l" reports 8890. > > I cannot reproduce. I've been up for over 10 days. Make sure that > Nautilus is looking at a real path, and not a symlink. Gamin does not > report changes on symlinks in line with the FAM spec. > I have seen the problem Jason describes quite often with older versions of nautilus: for example when you use a different file manager like midnight-commander or thunar or when you log in remotely via ftp. I tried all these methods with nautilus-2.26.2 ^ and couldn't reproduce them either. Greetings Uli. > Joe > > > > > Thanks, Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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