[Bug 16645] New: [breezy] gamin goes crazy eating RAM from time to time

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Ubuntu | gamin

           Summary: [breezy] gamin goes crazy eating RAM from time to time
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gamin
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: burner at suppressingfire.org
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


I just unlocked my machine after leaving it overnight, and I found that
gam_server was eating all my RAM and swap. I've seen this a time or two in the
past, but I haven't found a reliable way to reproduce it. I figured it would be
worth reporting, anyway. 

I can leave it running until someone tells me how to get debug info out of a
running process (obviously, I can't just run it under gdb, since I can't
reproduce the problem reliably). 

Here're details:
from dpkg -l:
ii  gamin                  0.1.5-0ubuntu1         File and directory monitoring
system

from top:
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
13281 burner    15   0  863m 234m  336 S  0.0 46.6   1:27.34
/usr/lib/gamin/gam_server

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