#18186: tor browser updater handles full disk poorly --------------------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner: tbb-team Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Severity: Normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Actual Points: Parent ID: | Points: Reviewer: | Sponsor: --------------------------------------+--------------------------
Comment (by torusers): Hello, I can confirm this. Just yesterday, the updated process crashed my computer. The Linux UI was almost completely unresponsive, I managed to kill -9 the Tor process and related processes after several minutes. Only today, when the whole ordeal started again just seconds after starting the TBB, I checked iotop and noticed that the Tor updater was the culprit. *Please* disable this "staging" stuff, it definitely does more harm than good. Instead of relying on a well-running PC for a few seconds for the update process, the PC has to run many minutes or even hours for the "staging". Please remember that there are still many people with non-SSD HDDs, where reading and writing at the same time on the same disk is *really* slow. This is seriously the only thing that nags me with the TBB, everything else is great. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18186#comment:8> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online _______________________________________________ tor-bugs mailing list tor-bugs@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-bugs