Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:47:26 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chromium producing constant hdd access Message-ID: <20110117014726.GA25607@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110116115143.GA87617@freebsd.org> References: <20110116115143.GA87617@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:51:43AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i noticed chromium is producing a lot of hdd activity. i think it writes every > 1kb of new data directly to disk or so. is there a way to increase chromiums > download buffer somehow. firefox or opera seem to have a much larger download > buffer and write bigger chunks to disk. thus they produce a lot less hdd writes > per second. > > has anybody experienced the same behavior? I haven't used the Chromium browser in months, since a bunch of vulnerabilities arose and the port maintainer's business model evidently makes it impossible for him to update the port to fix vulnerabilities that are less than a year old. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0zn64ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWJSwCg1S+tnu1AxmX2QZ+gNZLbPFvy 2FQAoOu2p1xX/YAeesFZ2ivLL7hAufFW =RvTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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