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 Message-ID: <1241072093.28498.280.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1241054963.2788.6.camel@localhost> References: <1241054963.2788.6.camel@localhost>
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--=-ToXtl0jg0cckTbUCN7bX Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-ToXtl0jg0cckTbUCN7bX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEUEABECAAYFAkn5QdsACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fU+QCXdLvhQWTYesaDFFY6e3zG8dd+ AACbB+oST9fFYqYqnK9bCny0OcUsyoE= =xUI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ToXtl0jg0cckTbUCN7bX--
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