Are you sure it is Firefox to cause that IO load? Have you measured it? If you want I have a Systemtap script useful to find the IO bound process.
With the proposed fix I've never experienced the issue again. -- [MASTER] Committing to urlclassifier3.sqlite causes excessive CPU usage and disk I/O https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215728 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
