Re: Gkrellm reports memory and ramdisk as disk writing

What does your browser configuring ineptitude have to do with gkrellm?


On 12/20/15, Usama Akkad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This tool is great.
>
> I've noticed disk activity when I watch live stream or youtube video. It's
> very obvious on Gkrellm.
> When I stop live stream disk activity stops.
>
> However I though I can make my browser use memory only for cache storage to
> save the disks some unnecessary writes.
>
> In Firefox I set
> browser.cache.disk.enable;false
>
> But GKrellM was still reporting a disk activity even though I set it to
> monitor sda only
>
> Then I tried chromium browser with a ram disk with the following commands:
>
>
> sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=1024M tmpfs /media/ramdisk/
> chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/media/ramdisk/
>
> But I still see reported disk activity. So I wonder why this is happening
> and if I can limit the activity to only what makes the disk spin.
>
> Thank you,
> Usama
>