From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 01:56:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49798106564A for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:56:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1464D8FC1C for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14849 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jan 2011 01:56:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2011 01:56:30 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=ahiicky6ZlXpCjYLit2q1qhhd71uBr3nSUF77vH9UVhucbXyqYZsFFizmE4L4vCcLlKAnYx7OG9L3TB4HEwDkB8tfgAqB6GDHOgkeNNN9JCZudrt2U8696vbU+uk17WR; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PeeKb-0002Bi-4Q for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:56:30 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:47:26 -0700 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:47:26 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110117014726.GA25607@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20110116115143.GA87617@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110116115143.GA87617@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: chromium producing constant hdd access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:56:31 -0000 --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0zn64ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWJSwCg1S+tnu1AxmX2QZ+gNZLbPFvy 2FQAoOu2p1xX/YAeesFZ2ivLL7hAufFW =RvTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--