Comments on: gam_server, Solaris and high CPU load

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:33:59 +0000

Thank you very much, at first glance, this appears to have worked very well.

By: AlekZ

AlekZ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:16:04 +0000

Thanks Bnitz! I've updated my post using your recommendations.

By: Open desktop mechanic : Weblog

Open desktop mechanic : Weblog — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:25:54 +0000

[...] us with special requirements such as remote NFS mounted home directories, AlekZ's Scratchpad has a very nice workaround to put gam_server back in its place. I'd recommend the following slightly modified [...]

By: bnitz

bnitz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:07:28 +0000

Thanks for this. I've posted a link and the same procedure on my blog. I'd recommend the following minor changes for opensolaris 2008.05:

Step 2 should have the following additional line:
fsset zfs poll 15

Step 3 is more graceful if you don't kill -9 and kill gam_server instead of fam_server:

pkill gam_server;rm -rf /tmp/gam_*