gam_server is using 95-98% of cpu time

[bruce]

This afternoon, I used kaffeine for a bit and then shut it down.  Later 
I opened kaffeine again.  Now tops shows two pids for kaffeine and one 
for gam_server - each of the three is using 33% of cpu time.  Something 
is very wrong!

Does anyone else have anything like this with top?  Is this a known bug?
bruce

On Friday 20 January 2006 16:49, bruce wrote:
> I'm using kubuntu 5.04 and noticed this morning, running top, that
> gam_server is using most of the cpu.  I tried a cpu intensive program
> and found that it takes much longer on this machine than on a much
> slower Fedora core 3 machine.
>
> Bugzilla has a bug report for this (in redhat) and there was lots of
> activity back in 2004, but I can't find anything definitive on a fix.
> I don't know what gamin or gam_server are nor whether I need them or
> not.
>
> The discussion is at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132354
>
> Has anyone else seen this?  If so, is there a fix?
>
> Any help appreciated - bruce