Jon Peatfield writes:
> in sl53 nautilus was only causing gamin to poll a few bits of the home 
> directory (e.g. ~/Desktop/) every 10 seconds so it wasn't a really _big_ 
> problem.
> 
> I'm guessing that if gamin is told it can't monitor NFS then nautilus may 
> do some polling itself...

I've tried this on the cluster here for a few days with mixed results.

It looks like it's obeying the polling directive, in that the load is
now intermittent.  When it's on though, it's _really_ on - gam_server is
more agressive about it than nautilus, plus nautilus still takes 50% of
the other core (in a not-insubstantial test client machine) to digest
gamin's input.

I'll jack up the polling from the 20 seconds I first tried to a lot
(say, 200 seconds), just to see if the problem scales.

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