Bug 454574 - mono writing to filesystem far too frequently
Summary: mono writing to filesystem far too frequently
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mono
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Xavier Lamien
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: NEEDSRETESTING
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Blocks: F10Target 454582
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Reported: 2008-07-09 02:43 UTC by Jesse Keating
Modified: 2013-01-10 03:21 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:14:20 UTC
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Description Jesse Keating 2008-07-09 02:43:53 UTC
mono process, which is running because of tomboy, seems to be reading/writing to
a couple files pretty frequently (more often than once a minute).

mono(7517): dirtied inode 18811342 (shared_fileshare-lumos-Linux-x86_64-40-11-0)
on dm-0
mono(7517): dirtied inode 18811342 (shared_fileshare-lumos-Linux-x86_64-40-11-0)
on dm-0
mono(7517): dirtied inode 18810995 (shared_data-lumos-Linux-x86_64-328-11-0) on dm-0
mono(7517): dirtied inode 18810995 (shared_data-lumos-Linux-x86_64-328-11-0) on dm-0

These files are:

/home/jkeating/.wapi/shared_fileshare-lumos-Linux-x86_64-40-11-0: X11 SNF font
data, LSB first
/home/jkeating/.wapi/shared_data-lumos-Linux-x86_64-328-11-0: data


This causes the disk to wake up far too frequently for any decent power savings.

Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2008-07-09 02:47:08 UTC
See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomboy/+bug/222907

Comment 2 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-20 12:14:38 UTC
Is this happening on anything other than PPC? I've not noticed it on my x86 box.

Comment 3 Jesse Keating 2008-10-20 17:32:09 UTC
This wasn't on ppc, this was on x86_64.

Comment 4 John Poelstra 2008-10-20 22:51:52 UTC
What version of Mono and Tomboy are installed?

Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2008-10-20 23:09:47 UTC
tomboy-0.12.0-2.fc10.x86_64
mono-core-2.0-10.fc10.x86_64

Tomboy seems to be waking up once a second, which seems pretty darn frequent.  To monitor:

# sysctl -w vm.block_dump=1
# while true; do sleep 1; date; dmesg -c; done

Comment 6 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-20 23:22:31 UTC
I wonder if it's worth recompiling mono with MONO_DISABLE_SHM=1 for rawhide and see if anything comes in as broken due to it. I know it's not a fix, but it should do as work around until the bug is sorted

(ref https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434566#c2)

Comment 7 Xavier Lamien 2008-10-21 21:49:29 UTC
From comment #3
it's an io-player issue not an arch depend.

From comment #6
actually, this workaround will break some mono related packages.
it's the case on my rawhide (f-spot, beagles, banshee).

Unused mono (related to io-player) processes during usage get other app freeze or more.

We really need to have more detail from upstream about this issue.

Comment 8 Paul F. Johnson 2008-10-23 10:27:31 UTC
I'll post to the novell BZ later and see if there is any progress either in the 2.2 branch (if there is, I'll backport the solution if that can be done) or in trunk.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 02:31:32 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 10 David Nielsen 2009-03-17 16:17:22 UTC
Is this still valid for Mono 2.4 which is in Rawhide?

Indications seem to be that it has been fixed upstream
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434566#c2

Comment 11 Jesse Keating 2009-03-31 16:36:56 UTC
It now diddles the disk about ever 5 seconds.  Better, but still pretty darn frequent.

Comment 12 neighborlee 2009-06-08 15:15:26 UTC
Fedora 11 isn't far off by one day, so I would like to know if this has been resolved, as I completely agree once/5 is far too often.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 12:35:54 UTC
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Comment 14 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:14:20 UTC
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