On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Giuseppe Iuculano > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/09/2013 14:11, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >>> Chromium writes several short-lived files to /var/tmp, but those >>> should be written to /tmp. Users with SSDs often mount a tmpfs on >>> /tmp to reduce writes to the SSD. But /var/tmp cannot be a tmpfs, >>> as it needs to be preserved across reboots. Writing those short-lived >>> files to /var/tmp thus causes unnecessary writes to the SSD. >> >> >> You can set it in /etc/chromium/default : >> >> CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=detect --disk-cache-dir=/tmp" >> >> >> Cheers, >> Giuseppe. >> > > It's not the cache. Those are temporary files with random names that > only exist for a second or shorter. My cache was on a tmpfs already.
As you can see in the shortened inotifywait -m log of my chromium startup, it creates the file, opens it, and deletes it right away, but keeps it open. /var/tmp/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR /var/tmp/ CREATE etilqs_Y5xFMpBKNivTXdC /var/tmp/ OPEN etilqs_Y5xFMpBKNivTXdC /var/tmp/ DELETE etilqs_Y5xFMpBKNivTXdC /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_Y5xFMpBKNivTXdC [... repeated ...] /var/tmp/ CREATE etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ OPEN etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ DELETE etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_Eq0G5Rar5TQzzIr /var/tmp/ CREATE etilqs_XIrqj6iwC6R36p7 /var/tmp/ OPEN etilqs_XIrqj6iwC6R36p7 /var/tmp/ DELETE etilqs_XIrqj6iwC6R36p7 /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_XIrqj6iwC6R36p7 /var/tmp/ MODIFY etilqs_XIrqj6iwC6R36p7 It does not only do this at startup, but also during running; whenever I load a new website. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
