gam_server issue?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 08:59 -0500, Paul Dokas wrote:
> Is it normal for gam_server to constantly use approx 7% to 10% of a CPU?  This
> seems to be a normal state while I'm logged in.  This also happens while the
> computer is sitting at the GDM prompt (but gam_server is being run by gdm).

It's normal if it's doing a lot of polling, or if monitored files and
directories are changing a lot.  You'd have to use ktrace or gdb to see
what it's doing to know if this is a problem or not.

Joe

> 
> Here are the top running processes according to top.  I'm logged in of course
> and the machine is otherwise idle.
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  4621 dokas         1  49    0 24068K 14908K select 0   4:39  8.50% gam_server
> 93462 root          1  44    0   378M   100M select 1   4:18  0.00% Xorg
>  5313 dokas         3  44   19   124M 96608K ucond  1   2:51  0.00% trackerd
>  8355 dokas         1  44    0   118M 16340K select 0   0:34  0.00% multiload-applet-2
>  4820 dokas         1  44    0   104M 18876K select 1   0:07  0.00% metacity
>  6605 dokas         1  44    0   132M 21392K select 2   0:03  0.00% wnck-applet
>  4873 dokas         1  44    0   216M 33080K select 1   0:02  0.00% nautilus
> 
> 
> Paul
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