From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 00:20:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E901065674 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DEA8FC1B for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q1G0KOD6038161; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q1G0KOPQ038158; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:24 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" In-Reply-To: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net> Message-ID: References: <20120215165738.75518ea9@cox.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to prevent gam_server from running? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:20:27 -0000 On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > Lately, I've been hovering hither and thither when it comes to which > desktop environment I choose when logging in, but several of them seem > to insist on starting gam_server, which is just a real CPU hog, and > once this thing is started, there's no stopping it. > > I've looked and looked and still can't figure out how to disable it. I > can't even figure out where exactly it's being started from. Whether > it's GNOME or XFCE or what-have-you, at login, some add-on tool > somewhere is launching this thing, and I just plain don't want it! :-) > > Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one. It's some hidden gnome thing. No real idea how to disable it, maybe gconf. It's responsible for monitoring file changes, so does have some usefulness. Might be better to figure out why it's tying up the CPU.