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Date:      Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:14:53 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Jason Reid <jason@jasonreid.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes
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On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 21:29 -0400, Jason Reid wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> >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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The closest bug report I was able to find was
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D130859 from 2004 which I
> don't believe is applicable. It discusses gamin 0.0.x, and I use
> 0.1.10_1.
>=20
> 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.

Joe

>=20
> Thanks, Jason
>=20
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