On Monday 03 April 2006 22:53, Deron Meranda wrote:
On 4/3/06, Marcel Janssen korgull@home.nl wrote:
How can I remove gam_server permanently from my system (seems to have lots of dependencies so just uninstalling isn't an option) ?
Aside from checking the version and reporting bugzilla notices, you CAN do these things (no root permisssions needed):
Renice the process so it's a lower priority renice +2 -p <PID>
Temporarily STOP the process kill -STOP <PID> and later re-enable it with kill -CONT <PID>
Also note that the purpose of GAM is to detect changes to your filesystem (so it can update the desktop icons, etc). If you have another process that is creating a lot of files, then you should have it use some subdirectory someplace (and not your home directory), as that should not wake gam_server up as much.
Thanks for letting me know. I think that the only process that's changing anything in my home dir is kmail because it receives mail in my mail box there. If this is causing the trouble than I hope I move kmail's box out of my home dir. I'll check on that.
regards, Marcel