Bug 457155 - Tomboy wakes up hard disk frecuently
Summary: Tomboy wakes up hard disk frecuently
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tomboy
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 454582
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-29 21:50 UTC by Jean-Pierre Rupp
Modified: 2013-01-10 04:45 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 18:19:50 UTC
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Description Jean-Pierre Rupp 2008-07-29 21:50:48 UTC
Description of problem:

Tomboy wakes up hard disk every 20 seconds aproximately. I was researching on
reducing read/write accesses to hard disk when the system is idle, so hard disk
heads remain parked longer.

When running Tomboy (Fedora 9 default Gnome panel configuration), I have three
load/unload cycles per minute. When not running Tomboy, this goes down to one or
less per minute.

iotop has shown me that this command keeps accessing I/O for writing:

mono /usr/lib64/tomboy/Tomboy.exe --panel-applet
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:TomboyApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=32

New laptop hard disks are designed to park the heads in case of no activity
after a few seconds. The number of seconds is up to the manufacturer. This helps
the laptop consume less power, generate less heat, and resist shock better. A
software program that wakes up the hard disk for read/write operations
frecuently is undesirable in a laptop computer, since this means more
load/unload cycles, thus a shorter hard disk lifespan.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

tomboy-0.10.1-2.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:

Keep Tomboy running in your panel. In some laptops, like my Dell XPS M1530,
you'll hear constant frecuent clicking of the hard disk as it loads/unloads
heads. This will be heard each 20 seconds aproximately, or even less. Clicking
every 1.5 minutes or more is acceptable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put Tomboy in your panel.
2. Run iostat -ob.
3. Watch as Tomboy accesses your hard disk for write operations every 20 seconds
aproximately.

Expected results:

Tomboy should run silently and not wake up the hard disk at regular intervals.

Comment 1 sangu 2008-10-15 02:47:24 UTC
[Tomboy] Writes to disk every 40s : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514434
- See Also [mono] ~/.wapi/shared_* updates vs. power savings : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434566#c2

Also, similar issue happens in gnome-do.
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gnome-do-0.5.0.1-4.fc10.i386
mono-core-2.0-10.fc10.i386
tomboy-0.12.0-2.fc10.i386

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2008-10-20 23:34:39 UTC
I think this is the same as bug 454574  Can this be closed as a dupe of that one?

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:17:35 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 18:19:50 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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