Hi,

Since I started using Geary, I observed my laptop is occasionally doing high 
hard-disk activity.

I tried to dig down to find out the cause, and my suspicion that Geary could be 
the culprit might actually be true.

Enter iotop. I ran this hard-disk io monitoring tool as follows:

  sudo iotop -ao

(Which shows the activity as "a"ccumulated quantity, and "o"nly those processes 
that do some activity.)

I let this run on the terminal, got back to web-surfing using chromium, and 
sure enough, after few minutes, I again saw my laptop hard-disk indicator LED 
blinking pretty vigorously. When I checked back in the terminal running iotop, 
to my shock, I found "geary" doing around 100 M of hard-disk writes, not once, 
but 4 times, each with a different TID. The second highest process, apart from 
geary, wrote around 4 M. So clearly Geary is doing more writes than others by a 
fair margin.

So my questions are, is this what is causing my hard-disk to thrash? And is 
this normal for Geary?

Regards,
Vaibhav
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