gam_server freezing system

[Rex Dieter]

Eric Mesa wrote:

> Ever since the last two kernels on Fedora 16 my gam_server goes to
> disk sleep.  When that happens I can't use dolphin or any kde file
> dialogs.

You could be seeing this bug in gamin that causes deadlocks that mimick your 
symptoms, unfortunately, it was only fixed in f17+ so far,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786170

If you kill the gam_server process, do things start working better?

-- rex