gam server process

What stands gam server process for?

gam server watches your file-system for changes. It's in the "gamin" package, you should find some more information there. gam server is the binary fo gamin (see http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/). It's a sgi_fam replacement for file alternation monitoring. A lot of linux programs use gam_server process to do different tasks. gam server is locater at: /usr/lib/gamin/gam_server

As a short-term solution for slow PC: I've had no problems just killing the process with a 'killall gam_server'. Right now I just monitor gam_server, kill it if it starts going wild(100% cpu), and renice it when it restarts.