Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:33:52 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VMSzbA==?= Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox constantly trashing disk Message-ID: <20180914203352.56e5e7c7@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <4ec4e2c1-21ec-e889-3105-304ee9a7e63f@netfence.it> References: <4ec4e2c1-21ec-e889-3105-304ee9a7e63f@netfence.it>
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:13:57 +0200 Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > 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. Try the patch in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222356 For Firefox ESR you may need the version hidden behind 'Show Obsolete'.
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