Firefox constantly trashing disk
Andrea Venturoli
ml at netfence.it
Fri Sep 14 16:14:13 UTC 2018
Hello.
I think FireFox (ESR) on my system makes really too much disk I/O.
My profile is on an NFS drive, but I hear local disks spinning, so I
guess it's writing to /tmp or /var/tmp (or another local folder).
Looks like animations are what really make him go mad: just opening
https://get.webgl.org/ will start heavy disk activity which will only
stop when that page is closed; however even a simple gallery, where
images "slide" smoothly, will give a spin any time a button is pressed
and the image changes.
I'd like to dig into this and understand what it is doing.
Is there a way I can see what file Firefox is writing too?
I tried "lsof|grep firefox", but that will list some 1200-1300 entries
and I still don't know which is the one.
bye & Thanks
av.
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