Bug 727943

Summary: xfce4-time-out-plugin writes excessively to disk - this could be a problem for SSD users
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kronos003 <kronos>
Component: xfce4-time-out-pluginAssignee: Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Kronos003 2011-08-03 18:17:12 UTC 
Description of problem:
Ive been monitoring my disk usage in preparation to migrate to an SSD. on drawback of SSD is that you can only write to each sector a set number of times before it fails. if we can reduce the chattyness of filesystem and programs, SSD would be more viable and safer to use for more users.



xfce4-time-out-plugin has written 20.64Mb of data to the drive in small bursts over the past 12hrs. is this really necessary?


here is a dump of iotop -a -o after 12.5hrs

 2753 be/4 kronos        0.00 B     20.64 M  0.00 %  0.00 % xfce4-time-out-plugin  17 16777259 xfce4-time-out-plugin Time Out Automatically controlled time outs and breaks






Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfce4-time-out-plugin-1.0.0-2.fc15.x86_64

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Expected results:
maybe a few KB of data after a several weeks, but not this much this fast

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Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2012-01-29 19:10:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 722815 ***