FS#29772 - [chromium] Using HDD every 3 seconds.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ypnose (Ypnose) - Saturday, 05 May 2012, 21:26 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 10:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Chromium browser is always using my HDD. I can clearly hear my drive writing every 3 seconds. It writes very often.
I have the cache on a tmpfs.
I thought it was kernel related with jbd2, but I was wrong. I talked with someone on this report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42895 and he said it's Chromium fault.
Enabled debugging on my kernel and watched the result of the command: "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/ext4/ext4_sync_file_enter/enable" and I can see Chromium apps using my disk.

Here the output: http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/443140

Tested with no extensions and blank page, same result, even with a single tab.

Additional info:
Kernel 3.3.4-2 (same things with 3.3.4-1)
Chromium 18.0.1025.168-1 (x86_64)
fstab: http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/441560

Steps to reproduce: Just run Chromium and navigate.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 10:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 06 May 2012, 07:41 GMT
Sounds like http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=52663.

I understand it's annoying, but there's not much we (Arch) can do.

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