[Bug 777558] Re: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
[Expired for gconf (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/777558/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 777558] Re: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
I think this may have something to do with gnome-wm. My .xsession-errors is continuously being written to (it's now 853M in size) with: Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display :0 already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. and gnome-wm seems to keep being respawned: paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4109 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4142 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4252 paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm paulm@noobuntu:~$ pgrep gnome-wm 4330 Executing: killall gnome-wm seems to have stopped the respawning and now gconfd is not causing noticable IO -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 777558] Re: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
right, as you said it's likely a buggy client, what you can do is use gconftool to dump the gconf database and diff the dumps ** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 777558] Re: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
I have done a number of dumps with: gconftool --dump / but the contents all seem to be the same. I have done it a number of times in case it was something flip-flopping backwards and forwards but can't seem to catch anything: paulm@noobuntu:~/.gconfd$ gconftool --dump / dump5.txt paulm@noobuntu:~/.gconfd$ ls -l total 17704 -rw-r--r-- 1 paulm paulm 3450716 2011-05-06 10:30 dump1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 paulm paulm 3450716 2011-05-06 10:44 dump2.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 paulm paulm 3450716 2011-05-06 10:45 dump3.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 paulm paulm 3450716 2011-05-06 10:46 dump4.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 paulm paulm 3450716 2011-05-06 10:50 dump5.txt -rwx-- 1 paulm paulm 839037 2011-05-06 10:50 saved_state paulm@noobuntu:~/.gconfd$ md5sum dump*.txt 4f78079920ac9ce402597eeb85fed253 dump1.txt 4f78079920ac9ce402597eeb85fed253 dump2.txt 4f78079920ac9ce402597eeb85fed253 dump3.txt 4f78079920ac9ce402597eeb85fed253 dump4.txt 4f78079920ac9ce402597eeb85fed253 dump5.txt Does the saved_state file I have attached not give any clues? It is the file actually being written by the IO. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 777558] Re: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
** Attachment added: saved_state.copy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558/+attachment/2113592/+files/saved_state.copy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777558 Title: gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
