1. A method for suppressing the generation of an event, comprising: checking an in-kernel cache to determine if data relating to a file is within the in-kernel cache; determining whether the file has been modified since a last time an event was generated for the file where data relating to the file is found to be within the in-kernel cache; and suppressing the generation of an event for the file where it is determined that the file has not been modified since the last time an event was generated for the file.