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 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: maybe a few KB of data after a several weeks, but not this much this fast Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 722815 ***