Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gconf
iotop shows gconfd continuously writing to disk at over 100K/s when the
machine is otherwise largely idle (ie X screen locked, no interaction
with any apps).
The writing seems to be the ~/.gconfd/saved_state file which seems to
grow to 2M every couple of minutes before being wiped and started
again.
I realise that gconfd itself may not originate the writes, it may be
writing because a client is doing so but I do not have the knowlege to
trace this.
I will attach a copy of my saved_state file in the hope it will be
useful in working out why all the writing is happening.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libgconf2-4 2.32.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 5 13:37:17 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gconf
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-15 (19 days ago)
** Affects: gconf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity
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Title:
gconfd continuously writing to disk at more than 100K/s
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