Nauilusgamin stops showing directory changes

[barbara]

> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 21:29 -0400, Jason Reid wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > >From time to time Nautilus will not keep up with directories as the
> > files change. I cannot pinpoint the exact cause, but I can, for example,
> > "touch newfile" in a directory or on my Desktop, and Nautilus will not
> > show it until I open a Nautilus window to that directory/desktop and
> > click View -> Reload.
> >
> > Filesystem polling works fine after a reboot. Right now I have been up
> > for 4 days and just noticed, but it's stopped working as quickly as an
> > hour after boot. This is not a new problem with 2.26 and is something
> > I've experienced since at least 2.20. My system is FreeBSD 7.1-p4 i386
> > using a ZFS disk, but I've seen the same problem on the same computer
> > under an old installation using UFS.
> >
> > Some Googling reveals that Nautilus uses devel/gamin to poll changes
> > which in turn uses kqueue by default. The port has a compile-time option
> > for GAM_POLLER that I do not have enabled. Konqueror, however has never
> > exhibited this problem.
> >
> > The closest bug report I was able to find was
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=130859 from 2004 which I
> > don't believe is applicable. It discusses gamin 0.0.x, and I use
> > 0.1.10_1.
> >
> > My kern.maxfiles is 25000. kern.openfiles reports 10735, and "fstat |
> > grep gam_server | wc -l" reports 8890.
>
> I cannot reproduce. I've been up for over 10 days. Make sure that
> Nautilus is looking at a real path, and not a symlink. Gamin does not
> report changes on symlinks in line with the FAM spec.
>
> Joe
>
> >
> > Thanks, Jason
> >


I can see similar things here.
For example, yesterday I saved a file from the browser to my desktop and I saw that it was not there until I opened nautilus, browsed to the desktop directory and pressed refresh. And this happens after some time or after some unknown event.
I'm also still experiencing inability to unmount because of gam_server holding files or mount point under /mnt or /media.
For example after inserting a number of data dvds, suddenly I'm unable to eject or umount using gnome-umount without killing gam_server. But this happens also with UFS filesystems mounted under /mnt.
It seems to me that it's happening since gnome2-2.26, I'm pretty sure that all was working as expected before.
I have UFS filesystems, 7.2-PRERELEASE csupped and builded 4 days ago, GAM_POLLER enabled.