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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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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:51:43AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
>=20
> 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 chromi=
ums
> download buffer somehow. firefox or opera seem to have a much larger down=
load
> buffer and write bigger chunks to disk. thus they produce a lot less hdd =
writes
> per second.
>=20
> 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.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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