Today, I tried to catch what was going on in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/<something> while there was loss of responsiveness and audible/visible disk I/O.
It appears that places.sqlite-journal is being emptied and filled alternately. This is an extract with timestamps for these two files over time from successive ls -altr commands: =================== 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 98488 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite 143632 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 0 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite-journal 12894208 2008-07-01 00:18 places.sqlite =================== It appears that places.sqlite-journal is oscillating in size on disk while places.sqlite does not get changed. The initial and final sizes on disk for these two files are the same. What is all the disk I/O resulting in? If it is nothing (initial and final file sizes are the same), why is it happening at all? Can anyone throw any light on what is going on? Should I be watching other files? Is this a result of the "awesome bar" feature? Or could it be an addon that is causing this? I really wish for a speedy resolution. Thanks. -- after fix for #215728 - Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite still causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O (the 2nd) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229745 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
