Hi Rob! Checked again, and aparently, the Chrome Quicksilver plugin has been the culprit. I disabled it and both Chrome and Quicksilver's excessive writing to disk (over a hundred gigabytes each) stopped.
On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 12:29:53 AM UTC+8, antihero wrote: > > Hi Rob! > > Thanks for getting back to me. > > I looked at the folders you indicated and it seems the files being written > the most are Chrome-related. Now this might be a totally different topic, > but my Chrome app's been writing a lot to disk, too. Maybe it has something > to do with a lot of tabs. I've disabled the Quicksilver Chrome plugin first > and will report back after. > Thank you! > > On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 10:12:23 PM UTC+8, Rob McBroom wrote: >> >> On 23 Nov 2016, at 8:40, antihero wrote: >> >> Why is Quicksilver showing a lot of disk writing activity? It reminds me >> of >> the recently repaired Spotify issue of too much disk writes (in the >> gigabytes) despite not really downloading a lot. >> >> Is there an update or patch for this? Hope someone can enlighten me.... >> >> There have been a couple of reports about this. >> >> https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2286 >> >> I can’t think of what it would be and I can’t reproduce it. (But then, I >> usually don’t have QS running long enough for it to build up meaningful >> stats in Activity Monitor.) >> >> Off the top of my head, these are the things it would potentially write: >> >> - Its own preference files in ~/Library/Application >> Support/Quicksilver >> - Clipboard history (if you’ve enabled “Keep history when restarting”) >> - Catalog indexes in ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/Indexes >> >> There are some catalog entries that update frequently, but I think most >> of those are flagged as “can’t be indexed” so they shouldn’t be writing >> anything. >> >> Maybe try keeping a Finder window open on one or more of those locations, >> sorted by date modified, and see if you notice anything odd? >> >> -- >> Rob McBroom >> http://www.skurfer.com/ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
